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 archive and pressing the test button, causing an access violation at memory address 004F1DB8 when the application attempts to read invalid data.
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Description 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 archive and pressing the test button, causing an access violation at memory address 004F1DB8 when the application attempts to read invalid data.
Title WinRAR 5.61 Denial of Service via Malformed Language File
Weaknesses CWE-379
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-05T20:45:28.606Z

Reserved: 2026-04-05T13:27:54.997Z

Link: CVE-2019-25677

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-05T21:16:45.800

Modified: 2026-04-05T21:16:45.800

Link: CVE-2019-25677

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