7.8

CVE-2026-14266

7-Zip XZ Decompression Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

7-Zip XZ Decompression Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of 7-Zip. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the processing of XZ chunked data. Crafted XZ-compressed data can trigger an overflow of a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-30169.
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7-zip ≫ 7-zip Version < 26.02
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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.94% 0.576
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Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Trend Micro 7 1 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-26-444/
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