WinRAR Vulnerability Allowed Malware Execution During Archive Extraction
A critical path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2025-6218) in WinRAR has been patched after researchers discovered it could allow malware to execute automatically when extracting archives. The flaw received a CVSS score of 7.8 and was reported by security researcher whs3-detonator through Zero Day Initiative in early June 2025.
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