CVE-2026-48103
Description
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Versions 9.34 through 26.00 contain an off-by-one heap out-of-bounds read in the WIM (Windows Imaging) archive handler's security descriptor lookup. In CHandler::GetSecurity (CPP/7zip/Archive/Wim/WimHandler.cpp), the per-image SecurOffsets table holds numEntries + 1 cumulative offsets, but the check securityId >= SecurOffsets.Size() admits securityId == numEntries, and the function then reads SecurOffsets[securityId + 1], fetching one UInt32 past the end of the heap-allocated CRecordVector (which performs no bounds checking on operator[]). The securityId is attacker-controlled at offset +0xC of any directory entry in WIM metadata, and the handler is registered for .wim, .swm, .esd, and .ppkg and enabled by default in stock 7z.dll; the OOB triggers zero-click in the GUI because 7zFM.exe's ListView calls GetRawProp(kpidNtSecure) for every item during listing (ASan-confirmed), and is also reachable via CLI listing with 7zz l -slt. Impact is limited to denial of service under hardened allocators and minor information disclosure, since the OOB value is only consumed arithmetically as a length and is not surfaced to the attacker; there is no write primitive.
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Affected products
4- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/7zip&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/7zip&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 26.01-160000.1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 26.01-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 26.02-2.1
Patches
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References
1- securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2026-115_GHSL-2026-122_7-zip/nvdExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
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