Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4474

Title: Rarlab Winrar RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-4474.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Dec 22, 2005
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4474: Buffer overflow in the "Add to archive" command in WinRAR 3.51 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into adding a file whose filename contains a non-default code page and non-ANSI characters, as demonstrated using a Chinese filename, possibly due to buffer expansion when using the WideCharToMultiByte API. NOTE: it is not clear whether this problem can be exploited for code execution. If not, then perhaps the user-assisted nature of the attack should exclude the issue from inclusion in CVE.

Impacted Vendors

R
rarlab 1

Reference Links

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/290 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420006/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15999 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/290 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420006/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15999
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-4474 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.