CVE-2014-9983

published 2017-06-04

CVE-2014-9983: Directory Traversal exists in RAR 4.x and 5.x because an unpack operation follows any symlinks, including symlinks contained in the archive. This allows remote…

Priority P4 34 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C N I H A N

Directory Traversal exists in RAR 4.x and 5.x because an unpack operation follows any symlinks, including symlinks contained in the archive. This allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive.

Affected

20 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	rar	< rar 2:5.3.b2-1 (bookworm)	rar 2:5.3.b2-1 (bookworm)
rarlab	rar	—	—
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rarlab	rar	>= 0 < 2:5.3.b2-1	2:5.3.b2-1
rarlab	rar	>= 0 < 2:5.3.b2-1	2:5.3.b2-1
rarlab	rar	>= 0 < 2:5.3.b2-1	2:5.3.b2-1
rarlab	rar	>= 0 < 2:5.3.b2-1	2:5.3.b2-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.5 MEDIUM

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