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# WinRAR Active Exploitation Vulnerability - 20240904002

## Overview

The WA SOC has been made aware of active exploitation in the wild against vulnerabilty in WinRAR products allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system via a specially prepared archive.

## What is vulnerable?

| Product(s) Affected | Version(s) | CVE | CVSS | Severity |
| ------------------- | ---------- | ---- | ------------- | ---- |
| WinRAR | < 6.23 | [CVE-2023-38831](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38831) | 7.8 |High


## What has been observed?

There is no evidence of exploitation affecting Western Australian Government networks at the time of publishing. However, Proof of Concept (PoC) is made available, and there are reports of active exploitation in the wild.

## Recommendation

The WA SOC recommends administrators update to the latest WinRAR version to all affected devices within expected timeframe of *one month...* (refer [Patch Management](../guidelines/patch-management.md)):



## Additional References

- The Hacker News: <https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/hacktivists-exploits-winrar.html>
- CVE-2023-38831 PoC (source:github): <https://github.com/HDCE-inc/CVE-2023-38831>

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