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CVE-2025-55188

LOW

3.6

Description

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

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score3.6

SeverityLOW

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published8/8/2025

Last Modified11/4/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

7-zip:7-zip

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

References

https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/lunbun/CVE-2025-55188/(cve@mitre.org)

https://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/(cve@mitre.org)

https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-detect-7-zip-vulnerable-version(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-mitigate-7-zip-vulnerability(cve@mitre.org)

https://youtu.be/sWT6M1cfnwM(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/10/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/13/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/12/2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/16/7(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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