CVE-2018-20250
In WinRAR versions prior to and including 5.61, There is path traversal vulnerability when crafting the filename field of the ACE format (in UNACEV2.dll). When the filename field is manipulated with specific patterns, the destination (extraction) folder is ignored, thus treating the filename as an absolute path.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 93.46%
- CISA KEV
- Known exploited vulnerability
- CWE
- CWE-36
- Published
- 2019-02-05
- Last modified
- 2026-08-13
Affected products
- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. WinRAR
Weakness type
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