{"id":"CVE-2017-14502","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-14502","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:12:24.315Z","title":"read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header.","description":"read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header.","published":"2017-09-17T18:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:06:16.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125","CWE-193"],"affected":["libarchive/libarchive"],"epss":{"score":0.03367,"percentile":0.88678,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.37%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/875974","tags":["Issue Tracking","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/875974","tags":["Issue Tracking","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14502","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}