The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability.
Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been described as a case of path traversal affecting the Windows version of the tool that could be exploited to obtain arbitrary code execution by crafting malicious archive files.
“When extracting a file,
