A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions, that can execute commands on a computer simply by opening an archive.

The flaw is tracked as CVE-2023-40477 and could give remote attackers arbitrary code execution on the target system after a specially crafted RAR file is opened.

RARLAB released WinRAR version 6.23 on August 2nd, 2023, effectively addressing CVE-2023-40477.

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1152/

    • lnxtxEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Yes, many people in an office environment. Just habit like the Total Commander :|

      Back in the time, it offered much better compression ratio than popular (Win)Zip. And it has SFX feature.

    • Never_Sm1leEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      For people compressing things a lot, winrar is much more productive than 7z. I can easily set up default profile in winrar (best compression quality + delete files after archiving) but can’t do this with 7z