CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-55188
3.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-08-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
Affected configurations
• 7-zip 7-zip (< 25.01)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01 Product
- https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01 Release Notes
- https://github.com/lunbun/CVE-2025-55188/ Exploit
- https://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/ Product
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-detect-7-zip-vulnerable-version www.vicarius.io
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-mitigate-7-zip-vulnerability www.vicarius.io
- https://youtu.be/sWT6M1cfnwM Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/10/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/13/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/12/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/16/7 www.openwall.com