CVE-2019-25677

Summary

WinRAR 5.61 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by placing a malformed winrar.lng language file in the installation directory. Attackers can trigger the crash by opening an archive and pressing the test button, causing an access violation at memory address 004F1DB8 when the application attempts to read invalid data.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Win-RarWinRAR5.61 32 Bitaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-379: Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References