VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-14502

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability3.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-09-17
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-193: Off-by-one Error

Primary references