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7-Zip: CVE-2022-29072: CWE-787

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7-Zip: CVE-2022-29072: CWE-787

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/15/2022
Created
07/27/2024
Added
07/26/2024
Modified
07/29/2024

Description

7-Zip through 21.07 on Windows allows privilege escalation and command execution when a file with the .7z extension is dragged to the Help>Contents area. This is caused by misconfiguration of 7z.dll and a heap overflow. The command runs in a child process under the 7zFM.exe process. NOTE: multiple third parties have reported that no privilege escalation can occur

Solution(s)

  • 7-zip-7-zip-upgrade-latest

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