CVE-2026-28208

Updated on 26 Feb 2026

Severity

5.9 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.9
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Overview

About vulnerability

Junrar is an open source java RAR archive library. Prior to version 7.5.8, a backslash path traversal vulnerability in LocalFolderExtractor allows an attacker to write arbitrary files with attacker-controlled content anywhere on the filesystem when a crafted RAR archive is extracted on Linux/Unix. This can often lead to remote code execution (e.g., overwriting shell profiles, source code, cron jobs, etc). Version 7.5.8 has a fix for the issue.

Details

Affected product:
junrar , tika
Affected packages:
junrar @ 7.5.5 (+216 more)
Junrar is an open source java RAR archive library. Prior to version 7.5.8, a backslash path traversal vulnerability in LocalFolderExtractor allows an attacker to write arbitrary files with attacker-controlled content anywhere on the filesystem when a crafted RAR archive is extracted on Linux/Unix. This can often lead to remote code execution (e.g., overwriting shell profiles, source code, cron jobs, etc). Version 7.5.8 has a fix for the issue.