VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2025-55188
7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
LOW 3.6EPSS 0.69%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.69%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
- CVSS 3.1
- 3.6 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.69% probability · 51th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Affected
- 7-zip/7-zip
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/compare/25.00...25.01Product
- https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01Release Notes
- https://github.com/lunbun/CVE-2025-55188/Exploit
- https://lunbun.dev/blog/cve-2025-55188/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/da14cd780b/Product
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-detect-7-zip-vulnerable-version
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-55188-mitigate-7-zip-vulnerability
- https://youtu.be/sWT6M1cfnwMExploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/10/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/13/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/12/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/16/7
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.