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CVE-2025-55188 (GCVE-0-2025-55188)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-08 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 22:06
VLAI
Summary
7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
Severity
3.6 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-12 14:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
7-Zip 7-Zip Affected: 0 , < 25.01 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:7-zip:7-zip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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