Privilege Escalation Affecting 7-zip package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.15% (52nd 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-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for 7-zip.

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.

CVSS Scores

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