New WinRAR Trial Version Vulnerability Let Hackers Execute Arbitrary Code on Windows

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New WinRAR Trial Version Vulnerability Let Hackers Execute Arbitrary Code on Windows

A critical vulnerability that exists in the WinRAR file archiver has been detected recently by the security expert of Positive Technologies, Igor Sak-Sakovskiy. And this security flaw enables the hackers to execute arbitrary code on Windows systems.

WinRAR is an application for managing archive files on Windows operating systems. It allows for the creation and unpacking of common archive formats such as RAR and ZIP.

This vulnerability has been identified as CVE-2021-35052, and this is being used to demonstrate trial period termination messages.

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