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CVE-2025-55188

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Date: August 7, 2025

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

Severity Score

3.6

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-detect-7-zip-vulnerable-version

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-55188

Url: https://youtu.be/sWT6M1cfnwM

Url: https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01

Url: https://github.com/lunbun/CVE-2025-55188/

Url: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1

Url: https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01

Url: https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-mitigate-7-zip-vulnerability

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55188

Url: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/

Url: https://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2025-55188

Severity Score

3.6

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CWE-59

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version https://github.com/ip7z/7zip.git - 25.01

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.6
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	CHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

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