GHSL-2026-119 7-Zip WIM SecurityId OOB read
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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.
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-2026-48103
- 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
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-2026-35544 GHSL-2026-120: 7-Zip SquashFS BlockToNode uninitialized heap read CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.2
- TI-2026-35542 GHSL-2026-118: 7-Zip UDF Field OOB Read CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-48103 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-48103 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-48103 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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