fkie_cve-2025-8088
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-08-08 12:15
Modified
2025-08-18 13:08
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A path traversal vulnerability affecting the Windows version of WinRAR allows the attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious archive files. This vulnerability was exploited in the wild and was discovered by Anton Cherepanov, Peter Košinár, and Peter Strýček from ESET.
References
security@eset.comhttps://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=283&cHash=a64b4a8f662d3639dec8d65f47bc93c5Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-8088-detect-winrar-zero-dayThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-8088-mitigate-winrar-zero-day-using-srp-and-ifeoMitigation, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/update-winrar-tools-now-romcom-and-others-exploiting-zero-day-vulnerability/#the-discovery-of-cve-2025-8088Press/Media Coverage
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rarlab winrar *
microsoft windows -


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