Privilege Escalation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package 7-zip  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.54% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-7ZIP-2766473
  • published17 Apr 2022
  • disclosed17 Apr 2022
  • creditKağan Çapar

Introduced: 17 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-29072  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for 7-zip.

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. 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.