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CVE-2014-9983

Date: June 4, 2017

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (5)

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-9983
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9983
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774172
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9983
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-9983

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Path Traversal

CWE-22

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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