RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Summary

CVECVE-2022-30333
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-09 08:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-17 07:15:00 UTC
DescriptionRARLAB 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.

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.928440000 probability, percentile 0.997640000 (date 2026-04-01)

CISA KEV: Listed on 2022-08-09; due 2022-08-30; ransomware use Known

Problem Types: CWE-22

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VendorRARLAB
ProductUnRAR
NameRARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Required ActionApply updates per vendor instructions.
NotesVulnerability updated with version 6.12. Accessing link will download update information: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x32-612.tar.gz; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-30333

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Opengroup Unix - All All All
Application Rarlab Unrar All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3534-1] rar security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Unrar Path Traversal Vulnerability affects Zimbra Mail MISC blog.sonarsource.com
WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files MISC www.rarlab.com
Zimbra UnRAR Path Traversal ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
RAR, UnRAR: Arbitrary File Overwrite (GLSA 202309-04) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x32-612.tar.gz CONFIRM www.rarlab.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CISA www.cisa.gov kev

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180852 Debian Security Update for unrar-nonfree (CVE-2022-30333)
  • 296082 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 48.126.1 Missing (CPUJUL2022)
  • 377763 RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal Vulnerability
  • 6000058 Debian Security Update for rar (DLA 3534-1)
  • 710746 Gentoo Linux RAR, UnRAR Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability (GLSA 202309-04)
  • 752155 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for unrar (SUSE-SU-2022:1760-1)
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