GHSL-2026-118: 7-Zip UDF Field OOB Read
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-125 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Versions 9.11 through 26.00 contain a heap out-of-bounds read of up to 3 bytes in the UDF disc image handler's File Identifier Descriptor parser. In CFileId::Parse (CPP/7zip/Archive/Udf/UdfIn.cpp), after validating size < 38 + idLen + impLen and advancing processed to 38 + impLen + idLen, the alignment-padding loop reads p[processed] while incrementing up to 3 times to reach a 4-byte boundary, and the processed <= size bounds check only runs after the loop. When (38 + impLen + idLen) % 4 != 0 and 38 + impLen + idLen == size, the loop reads 1 to 3 bytes past the end of the exact-size heap buffer allocated via buf.Alloc((size_t)item.Size). The UDF handler is registered for .iso and .udf files and auto-detected by signature, and the OOB read triggers during Open() when listing or extracting a crafted UDF image. Impact is limited to information disclosure (a 1-bit oracle per OOB byte via open/fail behavior) and denial of service (crash under hardened allocators); there is no write primitive. Version 26.01 fixes the issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA 7-Zip (mcmilk) Fixed in 26.01
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-48102
References
More mcmilk vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-79288 Out-of-bounds write in Google Brotli decoder KEVCVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
- TI-2026-35535 GHSL-2026-140_7-Zip: 7-Zip has a heap buffer overflow via NTFS compressed stream buffer under-allocation CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-35532 7-Zip SquashFS Fragment Offset Overflow (GHSL-2026-116) CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2026-35551 GHSL-2026-121 7-Zip UEFI DEPEX OOB Read CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-35543 GHSL-2026-119 7-Zip WIM SecurityId OOB read CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-35544 GHSL-2026-120: 7-Zip SquashFS BlockToNode uninitialized heap read CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.2
Sources
- CVE-2026-48102 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-48102 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-48102 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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