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WinRAR’s 19-Year-Old Bug: When Legacy Code Turns Lethal

  • Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
  • Post published: September 3, 2026
  • Post category:Security/Web & API Security

CVE-2023-38831 let a crafted WinRAR archive execute attacker code off a decoy file click — and researchers proved APT campaigns had been exploiting the 2004-era parser flaw for months before the August 2023 fix.

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