CVE-2022-30333

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: May 9, 2022
Updated: Oct 1, 2026
Reserved: May 7, 2022

Description

RARLAB UnRAR before 6.12 on Linux and UNIX allows directory traversal to write to files during an extract (aka unpack) operation, as demonstrated by creating a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. NOTE: WinRAR and Android RAR are unaffected.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
https://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x32-612.tar.gz
https://blog.sonarsource.com/zimbra-pre-auth-rce-via-unrar-0day/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167989/Zimbra-UnRAR-Path-Traversal.html
[debian-lts-announce] 20230817 [SECURITY] [DLA 3534-1] rar security updatemailing-list
GLSA-202309-04vendor-advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-30333government-resource

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