3.6
LOW CVSS 3.1
CVE-2025-55188
7-Zip Symbolic Link Extraction Vulnerability
Description

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

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 8, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 18, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-55188 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 7-zip 7-zip
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 LOW [email protected]
Solution
Update 7-Zip to resolve symbolic link handling issues during extraction.
  • Update 7-Zip to version 25.01 or later.
  • Extract archives with caution.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2025-55188 has a 7 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-55188 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2025-55188 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Proof-of-Concept of CVE-2025-55188: 7-Zip Arbitrary File Write

Python Shell

Updated: 2 days, 4 hours ago
1 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Aug. 28, 2025, 3:33 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

🛠️ Demonstrate CVE-2025-55188, a 7-Zip vulnerability allowing symlink attacks to overwrite files, highlighting crucial security risks for users.

archive-tools coding cve-exploitation exploit-development file-compression information-security malware-analysis open-source-tools penetration-testing reverse-engineering security-research vulnerability vulnerability-analysis 7z-exploit cve-2025-55188

Shell

Updated: 5 days, 19 hours ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 20, 2025, 9:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

7-Zip Exploit for Linux Platform

Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 12, 2025, 3:11 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

None

Shell

Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago
2 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 11, 2025, 5:07 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

7z exploit POC versions prior to 25.01

Shell

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
28 stars 5 fork 5 watcher
Born at : Aug. 11, 2025, 8:47 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

CVE POC repo 자동 수집기

Python

Updated: 4 days, 1 hour ago
0 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : June 8, 2025, 3:07 p.m. This repo has been linked 127 different CVEs too.

📡 PoC auto collect from GitHub. ⚠️ Be careful Malware.

security cve exploit poc vulnerability

Updated: 3 days, 6 hours ago
7229 stars 1202 fork 1202 watcher
Born at : Dec. 8, 2019, 1:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 802 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2025-55188 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • Help Net Security
WinRAR zero-day was exploited by two threat actors (CVE-2025-8088)

The RomCom attackers aren’t the only ones that have been leveraging the newly unveiled WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088) in zero-day attacks: according to Russian cybersecurity company BI.ZONE, a g ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 12, 2025 (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • DataBreaches.Net
7-Zip Vulnerability Lets Hackers Write Files and Run Malicious Code

Divya reports: A security vulnerability has been discovered in the popular 7-Zip file compression utility that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files to victim systems and potentially execute ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 11, 2025 (2 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • The Hacker News
WinRAR Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation – Update to Latest Version Immediately

The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been des ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 11, 2025 (2 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • CybersecurityNews
7-Zip Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code

A newly disclosed security vulnerability in the popular 7-Zip file compression software has raised significant concerns in the cybersecurity community. CVE-2025-55188, discovered and reported by secur ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 11, 2025 (2 weeks, 6 days ago)

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2025-55188 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 18, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 18, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1
    Added Reference https://youtu.be/sWT6M1cfnwM
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 14, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:7-zip:7-zip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 25.01
    Added Reference Type MITRE: https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01 Types: Product
    Added Reference Type MITRE: https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01 Types: Release Notes
    Added Reference Type MITRE: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/ Types: Product
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 10, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
    Removed CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Aug. 08, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
    Added CWE CWE-59
    Added Reference https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01
    Added Reference https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01
    Added Reference https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 3.6
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