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WinRAR path traversal flaw still exploited by numerous hackers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 4 months ago by tyrant@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access and to deliver various malicious payloads.

The security issue is a path traversal flaw that leverages Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to write malicious files to arbitrary locations. Attackers have exploited this in the past to plant malware in the Windows Startup folder, for persistence across reboots.

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

FYI: the prefix "win" is software jargon for insecure software to let advanced users know to avoid.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

People who still use WinRAR kinda deserve that. Seriously. WinRAR in 2026? Like WTF.

[-] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

What, don’t you still use it to unpack warez?

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 4 months ago

7zip (or its modern GUI fork NanaZip) is free and open source.

[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 points 4 months ago

Praise the lord Linus for the gift of Linux!

[-] rav3n@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 months ago

Fuck winrar and all the morons who used it.

this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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