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CVE-2017-14120

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability for RAR v2 archives: pathnames of the form ../[filename] are unpacked into the upper directory.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• RARLAB UnRAR: 0.0.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/20/1
• https://bugs.debian.org/874059
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00026.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/20/1
• https://bugs.debian.org/874059
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00026.html

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