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Patched WinRAR Bug Still Under Active Attack—Thanks to No Auto

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read1 · 1 read
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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2018-20250
Absolute Path Traversal in RARLAB WinRAR ACE Extraction (UNACEV2.dll)
7.896%KEVRansomwarePoC ×5
KEV

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2 min read at thehackernews.com

Various cyber criminal groups and individual hackers are still exploiting a recently patched critical code execution vulnerability in WinRAR , a popular Windows file compression application with 500 million users worldwide. Why? Because the WinRAR software doesn't have an auto-update feature, which, unfortunately, leaves millions of its users vulnerable to cyber attacks.

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