CVE-2025-55188

low

Description

7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/12/winrar-zero-day-cve-2025-8088-attacks/

https://databreaches.net/2025/08/11/7-zip-vulnerability-lets-hackers-write-files-and-run-malicious-code

https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/winrar-zero-day-under-active.html

https://youtu.be/sWT6M1cfnwM

https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-mitigate-7-zip-vulnerability

https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-detect-7-zip-vulnerable-version

https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/

https://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/

https://github.com/lunbun/CVE-2025-55188/

https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01

https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-08

Updated: 2025-10-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0001