CVE-2025-55188
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.6epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 51% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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-ZipReferences
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