WinRAR Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-36884 | Race Condition RCE in Microsoft Windows Search | 7.5 | 99% | KEVRansomware | KEV |
| CVE-2023-38831 | Code Execution in RARLAB WinRAR via Crafted ZIP File/Folder Name Confusion | 7.8 | 100% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×4 | KEV |
| CVE-2025-55188 | 7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction | 3.6 | <1% | PoC ×3 | |
| CVE-2025-6218 | Directory Traversal RCE in RARLAB WinRAR | 7.8 | 90% | KEVPoC ×2 | KEV |
| CVE-2025-8088 | WinRAR Path Traversal (CVE-2025-8088) Enables Arbitrary Code Execution | 8.4 | 94% | KEVRansomware | KEV |
Indicators of compromise
auto-extracted · verify before use · export allAll| Type | Indicator | Context |
|---|---|---|
| domain | bi.zone | code execution on the next system login." The attacks, per BI.ZONE, targeted Russian organizations in July 2025 via phishing e |
From the original article
5 min read at thehackernews.com
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 described as a case of path traversal affecting the Windows version of the tool that could be exploited to obtain arbitrary code execution by crafting malicious archive files.
By @TheHackersNews · thehackernews.com
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