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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're one of the 500 million utility users, now would be a good time to patch.

Or reading the warnings, apparently.