TL;DR: WinRAR has a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025-6218) allowing remote code execution via directory traversal in Windows versions. This exploit risks sensitive data and system integrity.

Users of the popular file-compression tool are urged to immediately update after a serious code-execution flaw was found in WinRAR. Popular Windows data compression tool WinRAR has patched a serious ...

In brief: Last week, a researcher discovered a vulnerability in older trial versions of the WinRAR file compression software. It allows for remote code execution---essentially allowing an attacker to ...

Attackers can exploit a security vulnerability in Winrar and attack Windows PCs with malicious code. The developers have closed the vulnerability in the current version. The vulnerability ...