CVE-2014-9983

medium

Description

Directory Traversal exists in RAR 4.x and 5.x because an unpack operation follows any symlinks, including symlinks contained in the archive. This allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-9787

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774172

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-04

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N