CVE-2018-20252

high

Description

In WinRAR versions prior to and including 5.60, there is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability during parsing of crafted ACE and RAR archive formats. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/winrar-absolute-path-traversal-vulnerability-leads-to-remote-code-execution-cve-2018-20250-0

https://www.win-rar.com/whatsnew.html

https://research.checkpoint.com/extracting-code-execution-from-winrar/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106948

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-02-05

Updated: 2019-10-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High