What is CVE-2019-25677?

CVE-2019-25677 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Win-rar Winrar, classified under Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2026-04-05.

How severe is CVE-2019-25677?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Win-rar Winrar

CVE-2019-25677

WinRAR 5.61 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by placing a malformed winrar.lng language file in the installation directory. Attackers can trigger the crash by opening an archiv…

EPSS: 0.000 (4.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Win-rar Winrar — versions 5.61 32 Bit

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-379 — Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

References

ExploitDB-46432 (exploit)
Product Reference (product)
VulnCheck Advisory: WinRAR 5.61 Denial of Service via Malformed Language File (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-25677?: CVE-2019-25677 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Win-rar Winrar, classified under Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2026-04-05.
How severe is CVE-2019-25677?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.