CVE-2026-24857

Summary

bulk_extractor is a digital forensics exploitation tool. Starting in version 1.4, bulk_extractor’s embedded unrar code has a heap‑buffer‑overflow in the RAR PPM LZ decoding path. A crafted RAR inside a disk image causes an out‑of‑bounds write in Unpack::CopyString, leading to a crash under ASAN (and likely a crash or memory corruption in production builds). There's potential for using this for RCE. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-122: CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

Additional References

• https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/security/advisories/GHSA-rh8m-9xrx-q64q

References

• https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/security/advisories/GHSA-rh8m-9xrx-q64q

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