The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6218 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a path traversal bug that could enable code execution. However, for exploitation to succeed, it requires a prospective target to visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. 'RARLAB WinRAR contains a path traversal vulnerability allowing an attacker to execute code in the context of the current user,' CISA said in an alert.