How severe is CVE-2022-30333?

CVE-2022-30333 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 99.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2022-30333: RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-08-09

Remediation due

2022-08-30

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
Vulnerability updated with version 6.12. Accessing link will download update information: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x32-612.tar.gz; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-30333

Description

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

6 Links

Vendor advisories

GLSA-202309-04

Mailing lists

[debian-lts-announce] 20230817 [SECURITY] [DLA 3534-1] rar security update

Other references

Record Details

Published

2022-05-09

Last updated

2026-10-01

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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