5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2014-9983

Published: 04/06/2017 Updated: 12/06/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

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 malicious users to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #774172 rar: CVE-2014-9983: symlink directory traversal Package: rar; Maintainer for rar is Martin Meredith <mez@debianorg>; Source for rar is src:rar (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debianorg> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:33:07 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, ups ...