CVE-2022-30333: RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 7.5. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-08-09. EPSS: 99.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
  • RARLAB UnRAR: before 6.12 (fixed in 6.12)

Published 2022-05-09. Last modified 2026-10-02.