CVE-2022-29072

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

Weakness classification

• CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Broken Link
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory