Zero-Day WinRAR Exploit: Eliminating Risk with TruRiskTM, as revealed in CVE-2025-8088
In a cybersecurity landscape where threats transcend regions and sectors, a newly disclosed path traversal vulnerability in WinRAR has left millions of Windows systems exposed to attack. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-8088, has been included in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, underscoring the urgency as it's already being exploited in the wild.
This vulnerability allows attackers to craft malicious archives that bypass the user's chosen extraction path, forcing files into unintended system locations. All versions of WinRAR up to 7.12 are impacted, making this not just a software bug but an enterprise-scale risk.
However, help is at hand. The company that developed the security product TruRiskTM Eliminate, known for better management of zero-day threats, is Qualys. With TruRiskTM Eliminate, security and IT teams can manage all actions centrally, enabling them to choose the right approach for their environment.
TruRiskTM Eliminate offers several solutions to lower exposure until a patch can be applied. It lets you block WinRAR executables, revoke DLL access, and disable processes. The secure release, WinRAR 7.13, addresses the path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088). Upgrading to this version is one of the fastest ways to eliminate exposure with TruRiskTM Eliminate.
If WinRAR is not business-critical, full removal may be the most decisive action. TruRiskTM Eliminate provides ready-to-use scripts to uninstall vulnerable versions of WinRAR from user-space and admin-space installations. Complete uninstall from Program Files across endpoints is also possible with TruRiskTM Eliminate. Clean removal from individual user directories ensures that hidden, non-standard installations don't linger as silent risks.
Moreover, TruRiskTM Eliminate consolidates every response option into a single platform, including patching, automated updates, mitigation, and full removal. In a zero-day landscape, TruRiskTM Eliminate helps organizations move from reacting to leading, accelerating risk reduction while maintaining control.
Threat activity is widespread and growing, with groups like RomCom (Storm-0978 / Tropical Scorpius) and Paper Werewolf exploiting the flaw. While RomCom has delivered malware across finance, manufacturing, defense, and logistics industries, Paper Werewolf has targeted Russian organizations.
In this critical time, organisations must take immediate action to protect their systems. With TruRiskTM Eliminate, Qualys offers a comprehensive solution to manage and mitigate the risks posed by the CVE-2025-8088 vulnerability in WinRAR.
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