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CVE-2019-25677: WinRAR 5.61 Denial of Service via Malformed Language File

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-04-05 · updated 2026-07-24
• Weakness: CWE-379

Description

WinRAR 5.61 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by placing a malformed winrar.lng language file in the installation directory. Attackers can trigger the crash by opening an archive and pressing the test button, causing an access violation at memory address 004F1DB8 when the application attempts to read invalid data.

Affected products

• WinRAR: through 5.61

References

• https://win-rar.com/predownload.html?spV=true&subD=true&f=wrar561tr.exe
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46432
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/winrar-denial-of-service-via-malformed-language-file

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