🛡️ CVE-2025-8088 — dtsearch

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-35 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2025-8088 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • dtsearch (fixed in 2023.01)
  • winrar (fixed in 7.13)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 August 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.win-rar.com
arstechnica.com
support.dtsearch.com
www.vicarius.io
www.vicarius.io
www.cisa.gov
www.welivesecurity.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-35
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-08-08
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
dtsearch — 2023.01
winrar — 7.13

References

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