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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 18, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-12938

CVE-2017-12938

Description

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.

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Affected products

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Patches

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