CVE-2022-30333

CRITICALNVD 7.59.0▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-08-09), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 99%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · kev ransomware · Metasploit · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

RARLAB UnRAR before 6.12 on Linux and UNIX allows directory traversal to write to files during an extract (aka unpack) operation, as demonstrated by creating a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. NOTE: WinRAR and Android RAR are unaffected.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
9.0(high)
EG Risk
96(Act)
EG Risk 96/100SSVC: Act

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Fix now — active exploitation, automatable, high impact.
EPSS PROB
99%
EPSS %ILE
100%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

May 9, 2022

Last Modified

August 4, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Jun 5, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available.
generic

RAR, UnRAR: Arbitrary File Overwrite (GLSA 202309-04) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-04
generic Patch Available

[SECURITY] [DLA 3534-1] rar security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00022.html
generic🟡 PoC Available

Unrar Path Traversal Vulnerability affects Zimbra Mail | Sonar

https://blog.sonarsource.com/zimbra-pre-auth-rce-via-unrar-0day/
generic

Packet Storm

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167989/Zimbra-UnRAR-Path-Traversal.html
generic

WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

https://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubunturar (2:6.23-1~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-09-19ubuntu
ubuntuunrar (1:5.6.6-2ubuntu0.1) @ focal2026-09-19ubuntu
ubuntulibclamunrar11 (1.0.4-0ubuntu0.23.10.1) @ mantic2026-09-19ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(9 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
rar1:3.5.1-1 ... 3.30-2 (34 versions)2:6.20-0.1~deb11u1—
unrar-nonfree1:3.5.2-0.1 ... 3.4.3-1 (40 versions)1:6.0.3-1+deb11u1—
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
rar1:3.5.1-1 ... 3.30-2 (32 versions)2:6.20~b1-0.1—
unrar-nonfree1:3.5.2-0.1 ... 3.4.3-1 (58 versions)1:6.1.7-1—
Debian:13(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
rar1:3.5.1-1 ... 3.30-2 (32 versions)2:6.20~b1-0.1—
unrar-nonfree1:3.5.2-0.1 ... 3.4.3-1 (58 versions)1:6.1.7-1—
Debian:14(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
rar1:3.5.1-1 ... 3.30-2 (32 versions)2:6.20~b1-0.1—
unrar-nonfree1:3.5.2-0.1 ... 3.4.3-1 (58 versions)1:6.1.7-1—
Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
rar1:3.5.1-1 ... 3.30-2 (33 versions)2:6.20-0.1~deb10u1—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(3)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 85× in last 7d / 336× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,235 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-09-19 23:43 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-19 23:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-19 19:40 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-19 19:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-19 15:38 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-19 15:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-19 11:36 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-19 11:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-19 07:30 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-09-19 07:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-19 03:27 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-09-19 03:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-18 23:24 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-09-18 23:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-18 19:22 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-09-18 19:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-18 19:20 UTCCISA KEV update
  18. 2026-09-18 15:19 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-18 15:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-18 14:15 UTCCISA KEV update
  21. 2026-09-18 11:17 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-18 11:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-18 07:14 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-09-18 07:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-18 03:11 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-09-18 03:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-17 23:09 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-17 23:09 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-17 23:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-17 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-17 15:02 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-09-17 15:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-17 10:59 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-09-17 10:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-17 06:56 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-17 06:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  18. 2026-09-16 14:45 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-16 14:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-16 14:10 UTCCISA KEV update
  21. 2026-09-16 10:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-16 06:38 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-16 06:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-16 02:36 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-16 02:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-15 22:33 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-09-15 22:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-09-15 18:30 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-09-15 18:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-09-15 14:27 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-09-15 14:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-09-15 10:24 UTCVendor advisory
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  34. 2026-09-15 06:20 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-09-15 06:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-09-15 02:18 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-09-15 02:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-09-14 22:12 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-09-14 22:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-09-14 19:24 UTCCISA KEV update
  41. 2026-09-14 18:09 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-09-14 18:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-09-14 14:06 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-09-14 14:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-09-14 10:03 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-14 10:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-09-14 06:00 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-09-14 06:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-09-14 01:57 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-09-14 01:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-09-13 21:55 UTCVendor advisory
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  53. 2026-09-13 17:52 UTCVendor advisory
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  55. 2026-09-13 13:49 UTCVendor advisory
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  57. 2026-09-13 09:46 UTCVendor advisory
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  59. 2026-09-13 05:44 UTCVendor advisory
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  61. 2026-09-13 01:41 UTCVendor advisory
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  63. 2026-09-12 21:38 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-12 21:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-09-12 17:35 UTCVendor advisory
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  71. 2026-09-12 05:27 UTCVendor advisory
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  73. 2026-09-12 01:24 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-12 01:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-09-11 21:22 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(5 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (2 Metasploit modules) (3 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoCaslitsecurity/Zimbra-CVE-2022-30333
    First seen Jul 26, 2022

    Zimbra unrar vulnerability. Now there are already POC available, it is safe to release our POC.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCrbowes-r7/unrar-cve-2022-30333-poc
    First seen Jul 15, 2022
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCTheL1ghtVn/CVE-2022-30333-PoC
    First seen Jul 5, 2022
    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/linux/http/zimbra_unrar_cve_2022_30333✓ verified
    First seen Jun 28, 2022

    UnRAR Path Traversal in Zimbra (CVE-2022-30333)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/linux/fileformat/unrar_cve_2022_30333✓ verified
    First seen Jun 28, 2022

    UnRAR Path Traversal (CVE-2022-30333)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2022-30333?
CVE-2022-30333 is a critical vulnerability published on May 9, 2022. RARLAB UnRAR before 6.12 on Linux and UNIX allows directory traversal to write to files during an extract (aka unpack) operation, as demonstrated by creating a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. NOTE: WinRAR and Android RAR are unaffected.
When was CVE-2022-30333 disclosed?
CVE-2022-30333 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 9, 2022, with the most recent update on August 4, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2022-30333 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2022-30333 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 9, 2022, affecting RARLAB UnRAR. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-30333?
CVE-2022-30333 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0.
Which products are affected by CVE-2022-30333?
CVE-2022-30333 affects RARLAB UnRAR. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2022-30333?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2022-30333, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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