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CVE-2022-23596

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23596 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the Junrar Java RAR archive library, where a specially crafted RAR archive can cause an infinite loop during extraction. This denial-of-service vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely without user interaction to cause high availability impact. While there are no known exploits or active exploitation, the vulnerability has received some community discussion, and users are strongly advised to upgrade to version 7.4.1 or later as no workarounds exist.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 7.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:junrar_project:junrar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.github.junrar:junrarFixed in: 7.4.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7.11Fixed in: junrar
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel K 1Fixed in: junrar

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-m6cj-93v6-cvr5high

Junrar vulnerable to infinite loop via extracting carefully crafted RAR archive

Feb 1, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-23596Moderate

junrar: A carefully crafted RAR archive can trigger an infinite loop while extracting

Jan 27, 2022

References

github.com / junrar/junrar/commit/7b16b3d90b91445fd6af0adfed22c07413d4fab7
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / junrar/junrar/issues/73
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / junrar/junrar/security/advisories/GHSA-m6cj-93v6-cvr5
Third Party Advisory