CVE-2025-55188 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2025-55188

7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links...

Vulnerability Description

7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

7-Zip
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 8th, 2025
Last Modified: November 4th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege Escalation
T1222 File and Directory Permissions Modification
Defense Evasion
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection
T1565 Data Manipulation
Impact
T1078 Valid Accounts
Persistence