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CVE-2025-55188

CVE-2025-55188

CVSS 3.6 LOWEPSS 0.7%CWE-59
Vexday Risk Score
8Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 3.6EPSS 0.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
08 Aug 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
7-Zip · 7-Zip

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References
https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01https://github.com/lunbun/CVE-2025-55188/https://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1https://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/sWT6M1cfnwMhttp://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/2025/08/13/1