WinRAR Has a Serious Security Flaw - Worrying Zero-Day Issue Lets Hackers Plant Malware, so Patch Right Away

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At the risk of high risk, a zero-day security vulnerability touches WinRAR on Windows. It is actively exploited by attackers to install malware and allows to take control of a PC.

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A vulnerability has been discovered in the popular WinRAR program, which has already been actively exploited by attackers. There is an update for the software, but users need to install it themselves.

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WinRAR is still one of the most popular data archivers. This is despite Windows 11 gaining native support for archives in this format, and WinRAR being a paid program (though no one respects this). Considering the number of installations of this tool, it's crucial that the new CVE-2025-8088 vulnerability in WinRAR can cause a virus, or rather malware, to be downloaded to your computer. You can, of course, download a WinRAR update, but if you're …

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WinRAR, you know, the thing that everyone has on their PC to decompress files and that no one or almost does pay the license? Well, it just got holed up like never before. Indeed, a group of Russian hackers currently operates a zero-day fault to install backdoors on machines and the worst part of it is that you probably have WinRAR installed for years without ever having updated it. The flaw in question is the CVE-2025-8088, a directory-cross vu…