CVE-2025-55188 (GCVE-0-2025-55188)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-08 00:00
Modified
2025-11-04 22:06
Severity ?
3.6 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Summary
7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
7-Zip 7-Zip Version: 0   < 25.01
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