HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-3845

Winrar vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.7%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in lzh.fmt in WinRAR 3.00 through 3.60 beta 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename in a LHA archive.
Affected vendor
Rarlab
Affected product
Winrar
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2006-07-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-3845

  • Confirm whether Rarlab Winrar is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-3845.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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