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CVE-2022-30333

HIGH7.5
CISA KEV

Published 2022-05-09 · Updated 2026-10-02 · Source cve@mitre.org

Summary

CVE-2022-30333 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in RARLAB UnRAR. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 9, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by August 30, 2022. CISA also lists it as known to be used in ransomware campaigns, so it should be prioritised accordingly. RARLAB has 5 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 4 of them linked to ransomware.

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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.

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-22CWE-22CWE-59

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: RARLAB — UnRAR

Name: RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Date added: 2022-08-09 · Due: 2022-08-30

USED IN RANSOMWARE

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

References

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