CVE-2026-24857CRITICAL 9.8EPSS p29.0%
CVE-2026-24857CVE-2026-24857
Description
`bulk_extractor` is a digital forensics exploitation tool. Starting in version 1.4, `bulk_extractor`’s embedded unrar code has a heap‑buffer‑overflow in the RAR PPM LZ decoding path. A crafted RAR inside a disk image causes an out‑of‑bounds write in `Unpack::CopyString`, leading to a crash under ASAN (and likely a crash or memory corruption in production builds). There's potential for using this for RCE. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 9.8 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.37% probability of exploitation · percentile 29.0% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2026-01-28 |
| Last modified | 2026-02-09 |
Underlying weaknesses· 2
References
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Heap-based Buffer Overflowcwe-122 | 0% | live |
| Weakness | Out-of-bounds Writecwe-787 | 0% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.