CVE-2025-55188

LOW

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

CVSS v3.1 Score

3.6
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Published: 8/8/2025Modified: 6/17/2026

Related Intelligence (1)

CRITICALPhishing

Mitsubishi Electric MELSOFT Update Manager SW1DND-UDM-M

<p><a href="https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/blob/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2026/icsa-26-181-01.json"><strong>View CSAF</strong></a></p> <h2>Summary</h2> <p><strong>Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a local attacker to tamper with or destroy information in the affected product, cause a denial-of-service condition in the affected product, or execute arbitrary code when a

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CISA Advisories

References (14)

https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01Producthttps://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01Release Noteshttps://github.com/lunbun/CVE-2025-55188/Exploithttps://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/ExploitThird Party Advisoryhttps://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/Producthttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1Mailing ListThird Party Advisoryhttps://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-detect-7-zip-vulnerable-versionhttps://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-mitigate-7-zip-vulnerabilityhttps://youtu.be/sWT6M1cfnwMExploithttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/10/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/13/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/12/2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/16/7