CVE-2025-8088: RARLAB WinRAR Path Traversal Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 8.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2025-08-12. EPSS: 94.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dtsearch Dtsearch: before 2023.01 (fixed in 2023.01)
• RARLAB WinRAR: before 7.13 (fixed in 7.13)

Published 2025-08-08. Last modified 2026-08-11.