CVE-2017-12938: Path Traversal

First published: Fri Aug 18 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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