CVE-2017-12938: RARLAB UnRAR

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

UnRAR before 5.5.7 allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism via vectors involving a symlink to the . directory, a symlink to the .. directory, and a regular file.

Affected products

• RARLAB UnRAR: up to and including 5.5.6

Published 2017-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.