CVE-2001-1271: Rarsoft Rar

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in rar 2.02 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) attack on archived filenames.

Affected products

• Rarsoft Rar: up to and including 2.02

Published 2001-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.