Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-1254

Title: WinRAR buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2004-1254

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 10, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

10.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-1254: WinRAR 3.40, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a ZIP file containing a file with a long filename, possibly causing an integer overflow that leads to a buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

rarlab 1

Reference Links

http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20041217.Winrar.c.php https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18569 http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20041217.Winrar.c.php https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18569

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-1254 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/694

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 10, 2005 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.