# CVE-2025-33028: In WinZip through 29.0, there is a Mark-of-the-Web Bypass Vulnerability because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-8811.

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-04-15 · Updated: 2025-10-24

## Affected

- WinZip: through 29.0

## Description

In WinZip through 29.0, there is a Mark-of-the-Web Bypass Vulnerability because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-8811. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass the Mark-of-the-Web protection mechanism on affected installations of WinZip. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of archived files. When extracting files from a crafted archive that bears the Mark-of-the-Web, WinZip does not propagate the Mark-of-the-Web to the extracted files. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. NOTE: a third party has reported that this is a false positive, and has observed that the original CVE-2025-33028.md file has been deleted on GitHub. Also, this is disputed because Mark-of-the-Web propagation can increase risk via security-warning habituation, and because the intended control sphere for file-origin metadata (e.g., HostUrl in Zone.Identifier) may be narrower than that for reading the file's content.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on WinZip, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://kb.winzip.com/help/help_whatsnew.htm
- https://github.com/EnisAksu/Argonis/blob/main/CVEs/CVE-2025-33028%20%28WinZip%29/CVE-2025-33028.md
- https://github.com/EnisAksu/Argonis/commit/5e1ff4e5f4fdb3f32aab465f7b429e0b91299d1d

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