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CVE-2018-12418

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

Archive.java in Junrar before 1.0.1, as used in Apache Tika and other products, is affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to an infinite loop when handling corrupt RAR files.

Affected products

• junrar: before 1.0.1 — fixed in 1.0.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: junrar 1.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/junrar/junrar/commit/ad8d0ba8e155630da8a1215cee3f253e0af45817
• https://github.com/junrar/junrar/pull/8
• https://github.com/junrar/junrar/commit/ad8d0ba8e155630da8a1215cee3f253e0af45817
• https://github.com/junrar/junrar/pull/8

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