🛡️ CVE-2024-33899 on Debian — rar

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

RARLAB WinRAR before 7.00, on Linux and UNIX platforms, allows attackers to spoof the screen output, or cause a denial of service, via ANSI escape sequences.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-33899 as tracked by Debian, for the package rar. The fix is available in version 2:7.00-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-33899 is classified as CWE-150: Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as escape, meta, or control character sequences when they are sent to a downstream component.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-33899 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • rar (fixed in 2:7.00-1)
  • unrar-nonfree (fixed in 1:7.0.3-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 April 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-33899 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-04-29
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
rar — 2:7.00-1
unrar-nonfree — 1:7.0.3-1

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