February 15, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2018-20250 — RARLAB WinRAR
known ransomware use
WinRAR Absolute Path Traversal Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2022-02-15- Federal due date
2022-08-15- Vendor
- RARLAB
- Product
- WinRAR
- EPSS
- 99.8th percentile (score 0.935, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20250
CISA short description
WinRAR Absolute Path Traversal vulnerability leads to Remote Code Execution
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.