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Is security not a merit?

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Honestly, this is like the first time I heard WinRAR has this big security vulnerability. But I am still planning to stay on WinRAR given its easy to use UI and unlimited free trial.

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It is. Coincidentally, security was one of the reasons to uninstall 7-Zip.

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There’s barely any CVEs on that page. It’s likely a security researcher did some fuzzing of the executable and found a few issues at once.

Have you looked at how many vulnerabilities there’s been in things like Windows, MacOS, Chrome, etc?

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I have. The point is that there is no software without vulnerabilities.

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The number of reported issues seems to be about the same with WinRAR: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1914/product_id-3768/Rarlab-Winrar.html

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