diff --git a/Filelist b/Filelist
index c1487af574..f2797efe2f 100644
--- a/Filelist
+++ b/Filelist
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ SRC_ALL =	\
 		src/testdir/samples/*.html \
 		src/testdir/samples/*.txt \
 		src/testdir/samples/*.vim \
+		src/testdir/samples/poc.zip \
 		src/testdir/samples/test000 \
 		src/testdir/samples/test.zip \
 		src/testdir/samples/test_undo.txt.undo \
diff --git a/runtime/autoload/zip.vim b/runtime/autoload/zip.vim
index 4a53fc5f28..dae4ddeb99 100644
--- a/runtime/autoload/zip.vim
+++ b/runtime/autoload/zip.vim
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 " 2024 Aug 05 by Vim Project: clean-up and make it work with shellslash on Windows
 " 2024 Aug 18 by Vim Project: correctly handle special globbing chars
 " 2024 Aug 21 by Vim Project: simplify condition to detect MS-Windows
+" 2025 Mar 11 by Vim Project: handle filenames with leading '-' correctly
 " License:	Vim License  (see vim's :help license)
 " Copyright:	Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Charles E. Campbell {{{1
 "		Permission is hereby granted to use and distribute this code,
@@ -343,6 +344,11 @@ fun! zip#Extract()
    return
   endif
   let target = fname->substitute('\[', '[[]', 'g')
+  " unzip 6.0 does not support -- to denote end-of-arguments
+  " unzip 6.1 (2010) apparently supports, it, but hasn't been released
+  " so the workaround is to use glob '[-]' so that it won't be considered an argument
+  " else, it would be possible to use 'unzip -o <file.zip> '-d/tmp' to extract the whole archive
+  let target = target->substitute('^-', '[&]', '')
   if &shell =~ 'cmd' && has("win32")
     let target = target
 		\ ->substitute('[?*]', '[&]', 'g')
diff --git a/src/testdir/samples/poc.zip b/src/testdir/samples/poc.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b2b44b96a
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/testdir/samples/poc.zip differ
diff --git a/src/testdir/test_plugin_zip.vim b/src/testdir/test_plugin_zip.vim
index e831f26345..2050b4ce10 100644
--- a/src/testdir/test_plugin_zip.vim
+++ b/src/testdir/test_plugin_zip.vim
@@ -235,3 +235,26 @@ def Test_zip_glob_fname()
 
   bw
 enddef
+
+def Test_zip_fname_leading_hyphen()
+  CheckNotMSWindows
+
+  ### copy sample zip file
+  if !filecopy("samples/poc.zip", "X.zip")
+    assert_report("Can't copy samples/poc.zip")
+    return
+  endif
+  defer delete("X.zip")
+  defer delete('-d', 'rf')
+  defer delete('/tmp/pwned', 'rf')
+
+  e X.zip
+
+  :1
+  var fname = '-d/tmp'
+  search('\V' .. fname)
+  normal x
+  assert_true(filereadable('-d/tmp'))
+  assert_false(filereadable('/tmp/pwned'))
+  bw
+enddef
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 65332f5e9a..265081a835 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -704,6 +704,8 @@ static char *(features[]) =
 
 static int included_patches[] =
 {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
+/**/
+    1198,
 /**/
     1197,
 /**/