Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-1271

Title: rar directory traversal allows arbitrary file overwrite during extraction

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-1271.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 12, 2001

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-1271: Directory traversal vulnerability in rar 2.02 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) attack on archived filenames.

Impacted Vendors

rarlab 1

rarsoft 1

Reference Links

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/196445 http://www.security.nnov.ru/advisories/archdt.asp http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/196445 http://www.security.nnov.ru/advisories/archdt.asp

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-1271 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 12, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.