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CVE-2025-55188

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

Published

2025-08-08T21:15:25.890

Last Modified

2025-11-04T22:16:30.420

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 3.6 (LOW)

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-59

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	7-zip	7-zip	< 25.01	Yes

References

https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01 Product ([email protected])
https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01 Release Notes ([email protected])
https://github.com/lunbun/CVE-2025-55188/ Exploit ([email protected])
https://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/ Product ([email protected])
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-detect-7-zip-vulnerable-version ([email protected])
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-mitigate-7-zip-vulnerability ([email protected])
https://youtu.be/sWT6M1cfnwM Exploit ([email protected])
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)