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If you’re still utilizing WinRAR, you ought to upgrade to variation 7.12 as quickly as possible. A vulnerability identified CVE-2025-6218 was just recently found in older variations of the popular Windows file compression tool.
The security vulnerability in concern can supposedly be made use of by hackers to bypass the app’s integrated security functions, increasing the danger of malware execution, reports BleepingComputer
The concern was initially reported on June 5th, 2025 through the Zero Day Initiative, and WinRAR launched a repair for it with variation 7.12 beta 1 on June 24th, 2025. The release likewise deals with 2 other small concerns.
“When drawing out a file, previous variations of WinRAR, Windows variations of RAR, UnRAR, portable UnRAR source code and UnRAR.dll can be deceived into utilizing a course, specified in a specifically crafted archive, rather of user defined course,” composes WinRAR in its changelog. To put it simply, files might be covertly drawn out to system directory sites and other delicate areas, enabling hackers to carry out harmful files in undesirable locations.
There are no recognized circumstances of this make use of being assaulted in the wild, you must upgrade WinRAR right away to remain safe.
This post initially appeared on our sis publication PC för Alla and was equated and localized from Swedish.
Author: Mikael Markander
Contributor, PCWorld
Mikael composes news throughout all our customer tech classifications. He has actually formerly dealt with Macworld, however today generally composes for our sis websites PC för Alla and M3. Mikael has a firm grasp on which gizmos are launched, and what is occurring with the streaming services and the current AI tools.
