7.8
HIGH
CVE-2022-29072
7-Zip Windows Heap Overflow Privilege Escalation and Command Execution Vulnerability
Description

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

INFO

Published Date :

April 15, 2022, 8:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 6:58 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2022-29072 has a 24 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-29072 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Microsoft windows
1 7-zip 7-zip
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2022-29072.

URL Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166763/7-Zip-21.07-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html Broken Link
https://github.com/kagancapar/CVE-2022-29072 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070256 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/bugs/2337/ Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1cvbu7ZTA Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166763/7-Zip-21.07-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html Broken Link
https://github.com/kagancapar/CVE-2022-29072 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070256 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/bugs/2337/ Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1cvbu7ZTA Exploit Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago
2 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 15, 2024, 5:20 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 7 months, 2 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : May 10, 2024, 4:13 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

All CVE - PoC in GitHub

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Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago
8 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : March 22, 2024, 3:58 p.m. This repo has been linked 928 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 9 months, 1 week ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 11, 2024, 1:21 p.m. This repo has been linked 930 different CVEs too.

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Assembly Python Shell PHP C++ C Go Ruby HTML Java

Updated: 3 weeks, 6 days ago
6 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 7, 2024, 2:08 p.m. This repo has been linked 305 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 1 year, 8 months ago
0 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : April 8, 2023, 6:19 a.m. This repo has been linked 923 different CVEs too.

None

Shell

Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago
3 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : March 23, 2023, 4:32 a.m. This repo has been linked 267 different CVEs too.

None

Shell

Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 19, 2023, 1:53 a.m. This repo has been linked 267 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 10 months, 1 week ago
20 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : Feb. 14, 2023, 6:10 p.m. This repo has been linked 921 different CVEs too.

7-Zip CVE-2022-29072 Mitigation - CHM file - This script detects if the .chm file exists and removes it.

PowerShell

Updated: 1 year, 10 months ago
3 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Dec. 20, 2022, 3:30 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 10 months, 1 week ago
2 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : Nov. 25, 2022, 5:43 p.m. This repo has been linked 930 different CVEs too.

None

Assembly Python Shell PHP C++ C Go Ruby HTML Java

Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
7 stars 4 fork 4 watcher
Born at : Nov. 25, 2022, 2:30 a.m. This repo has been linked 270 different CVEs too.

None

Shell

Updated: 1 year, 9 months ago
2 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 16, 2022, 9:38 a.m. This repo has been linked 256 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 1 year, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 30, 2022, 6:29 p.m. This repo has been linked 253 different CVEs too.

None

Shell

Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago
1 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : Aug. 25, 2022, 12:16 a.m. This repo has been linked 250 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2022-29072 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2022-29072 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166763/7-Zip-21.07-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
    Added Reference https://github.com/kagancapar/CVE-2022-29072
    Added Reference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070256
    Added Reference https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/bugs/2337/
    Added Reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1cvbu7ZTA
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 03, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Jul. 12, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE CISA-ADP CWE-122
    Added CVSS V3.1 CISA-ADP AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 11, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 02, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 17, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 11, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Tag MITRE disputed
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description ** DISPUTED ** 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. 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
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 25, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166763/7-Zip-21.07-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166763/7-Zip-21.07-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html Broken Link
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/kagancapar/CVE-2022-29072 No Types Assigned https://github.com/kagancapar/CVE-2022-29072 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070256 No Types Assigned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070256 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/bugs/2337/ No Types Assigned https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/bugs/2337/ Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1cvbu7ZTA No Types Assigned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1cvbu7ZTA Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-787
    Added CPE Configuration AND OR *cpe:2.3:a:7-zip:7-zip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 21.07 OR cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 22, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description ** DISPUTED ** 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. ** DISPUTED ** 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.
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 19, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description 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, ** DISPUTED ** 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.
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 19, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166763/7-Zip-21.07-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 18, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070256 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 16, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description 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. 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,
    Added Reference https://github.com/kagancapar/CVE-2022-29072 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2022-29072 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2022-29072 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.15 }} 0.01%

score

0.51746

percentile

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