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.
Published: 2019-02-25
A 19-year-old vulnerability in WinRAR’s ACE file format support (CVE-2018-20250) has been identified as part of an attack in the wild.
https://github.com/zeronohacker/CVE-2018-20250
https://github.com/lxg5763/cve-2018-20250
https://github.com/eastmountyxz/CSDNBlog-Security-Based
https://github.com/DANIELVISPOBLOG/WinRar_ACE_exploit_CVE-2018-20250
https://github.com/joydragon/Detect-CVE-2018-20250
https://github.com/arkangel-dev/CVE-2018-20250-WINRAR-ACE-GUI
https://github.com/Ektoplasma/ezwinrar
https://github.com/technicaldada/hack-winrar
https://github.com/blunden/UNACEV2.DLL-CVE-2018-20250
https://www.win-rar.com/whatsnew.html
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-20250
https://research.checkpoint.com/extracting-code-execution-from-winrar/
https://github.com/blau72/CVE-2018-20250-WinRAR-ACE
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-12813