Directory Traversal Affecting unrar-free package, versions <1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-UNRARFREE-286358
  • published3 Sept 2017
  • disclosed3 Sept 2017

Introduced: 3 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14120  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable unrar-free to version 1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream unrar-free package and not the unrar-free package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1