CVE-2025-8088
A path traversal vulnerability affecting the Windows version of WinRAR allows the attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious archive files. This vulnerability was exploited in the wild and was discovered by Anton Cherepanov, Peter Košinár, and Peter Strýček from ESET.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.4
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 94.55%
- CISA KEV
- Known exploited vulnerability
- CWE
- CWE-35
- Published
- 2025-08-08
- Last modified
- 2026-08-11
Affected products
- win.rar GmbH WinRAR
Weakness type
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