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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2022-04-15T19:54:15.000Z
Updated: 2025-06-09T14:47:09.625Z
Reserved: 2022-04-12T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2022-29072

Updated: 2024-08-03T06:10:59.387Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2022-04-15T20:15:12.313
Modified: 2025-06-09T15:15:27.197
Link: CVE-2022-29072

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