CVE-2022-29072 (GCVE-0-2022-29072)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-04-15 19:54
Modified
2025-06-09 14:47
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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
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