{"id":219719,"date":"2025-08-09T05:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/winrar-zero-day-exploited-to-plant-malware-on-archive-extraction"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:25:01","slug":"winrar-zero-day-exploited-to-plant-malware-on-archive-extraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/winrar-zero-day-exploited-to-plant-malware-on-archive-extraction","title":{"rendered":"WinRAR zero-day exploited to plant malware on archive extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/winrar-zero-day-exploited-to-plant-malware-on-archive-extraction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025\u20138088 was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is a directory traversal vulnerability that was fixed in WinRAR 7.13, which allows specially crafted archives to extract files into a file path selected by the attacker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen extracting a file, previous versions of WinRAR, Windows versions of RAR, UnRAR, portable UnRAR source code and UnRAR.dll can be tricked into using a path, defined in a specially crafted archive, instead of user specified path,\u201d reads the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.win-rar.com\/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=283&cHash=a64b4a8f662d3639dec8d65f47bc93c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WinRAR 7.13 changelog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025\u20138088 was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware. The flaw is a directory traversal vulnerability that was fixed in WinRAR 7.13, which allows specially crafted archives to extract files into a file path selected by the attacker. \u201cWhen extracting a file, previous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}