Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14120

Title: Rarlab Unrar Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14120.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Sep 03, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14120: unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability for RAR v2 archives: pathnames of the form ../[filename] are unpacked into the upper directory.

Impacted Vendors

rarlab 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/20/1 https://bugs.debian.org/874059 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00026.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/20/1 https://bugs.debian.org/874059 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00026.html

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns