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title: "Security digest: August 11, 2025"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2025-08-11/
description: "August 11, 2025 vulnerability digest: 1 brief (WinRAR CVE-2025-8088: ADS Path Traversal…). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-08-11
date_modified: 2026-10-21
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: August 11, 2025

1 editorial brief.

## Take stock

- Check exposure: WinRAR CVE-2025-8088: ADS Path Traversal Exploited by RomCom . Anyone running WinRAR, the Windows RAR/UnRAR tools, or software that bundles an old UnRAR.dll on Windows, especially if users open RAR attachments from email.
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Editorial briefs

- **Check exposure** [WinRAR CVE-2025-8088: ADS Path Traversal Exploited by RomCom](https://erroneo.us/security/briefs/winrar-cve-2025-8088-ads-path-traversal/index.md): Fixed since July 2025 but still heavily exploited, and WinRAR does not update itself, so hunt down every copy at 7.12 or older and update it today.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

None.

## Critical advisories

None.

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