Vulnerability · Published Jun 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-48103GHSL-2026-119 7-Zip WIM SecurityId OOB read

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity out-of-bounds read in 7-Zip from mcmilk. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.2% (higher than 82% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)2.2%top 17.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.247zip26.01-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-48103
Debian:127zip22.01+really26.01+dfsg-0+deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-48103
Debian:137zipno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-48103
Debian:147zip26.01+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-48103
Debian:12p7zip16.02+really26.01+dfsg-0+deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-48103
Debian:13p7zip16.02+transitional.1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-48103
Ubuntu:25.107zipno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-48103
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS7zipno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-48103
Ubuntu:26.107zipno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-48103
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSp7zipno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-48103

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
mcmilk 7-Zip >= 9.34, < 26.01

Weakness: CWE-125 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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