Multiple ACE vulnerabilities in WinRAR

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in WinRAR. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A logical issue can be exploited locally via specially crafted filename of the ACE archive to execute arbitrary code;
2. A validation issue can be exploited locally via specially crafted filename the ACE archive to bypass security restrictions;
3. An out-of-bounds writes vulnerability can be exploited locally via specially crafted ACE or RAR archive to execute arbitrary code;
4. An out-of-bounds writes vulnerability can be exploited locally via specially crafted LZA or LZH archive to execute arbitrary code;

Original advisories

• Extracting a 19 Year Old Code Execution from WinRAR

• Security Week 09

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

• WinRAR

CVE list

• CVE-2018-20250
  high
• CVE-2018-20251
  warning
• CVE-2018-20252
  high
• CVE-2018-20253
  high

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