CVE-2017-14120 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2017-14120?

CVE-2017-14120 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 Sep 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability for RAR v2 archives: pathnames of the form ../[filename] are unpacked into the upper directory.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14120?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Rarlab Unrar.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14120?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2017-14120 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14120 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14120, DLA-1091-1, GHSA-29ph-vc5w-7vvg, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14120.