Integer signedness error in the SET_VALUE function in rarvm.cpp in unrar 3.70 beta 3, as used in products including WinRAR and RAR for OS X,
Integer signedness error in the SET_VALUE function in rarvm.cpp in unrar 3.70 beta 3, as used in products including WinRAR and RAR for OS X, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted RAR archive that causes a negative signed number to be cast to a large unsigned number.
- Published
- Jul 12, 2007
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 2.1% · 81th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
18
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 2.1%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| rarlab | unrar | cpe:2.3:a:rarlab:unrar |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- rarlab unrar3.70_beta_3
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | rar | before 1:3.7b1-1 | 1:3.7b1-1 |
| Debian:12 | unrar-nonfree | before 3.7.3-1.1 | 3.7.3-1.1 |
Same product
rarlab: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2022-30333RARLAB UnRAR before 6.12 on Linux and UNIX allows directory traversal to write to files during an extract (aka unpack) operation, as demonstKEV90Now
- CVE-2017-12942libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has a buffer overflow in the Unpack::LongLZ function.40Plan
- CVE-2017-12941libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the Unpack::Unpack20 function.40Plan
- CVE-2017-12940libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the EncodeFileName::Decode call within the Archive::ReadHeader15 function.40Plan
- CVE-2017-14122unrar 0.0.1 (aka unrar-free or unrar-gpl) suffers from a stack-based buffer over-read in unrarlib.c, related to ExtrFile and stricomp.37Monitor
- CVE-2018-25018UnRAR 5.6.1.7 through 5.7.4 and 6.0.3 has an out-of-bounds write during a memcpy in QuickOpen::ReadRaw when called from QuickOpen::ReadNext.31Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| debian:rar | 1:3.7b1-1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
| debian:unrar-nonfree | 3.7.3-1.1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
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Timeline
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No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- M
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
nvd-primary
Attack context
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References
- osvdb.org/39603
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2880
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473371/100/0/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473373/100/0/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473376/100/0/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475155/30/5610/threaded
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.