CVE-2026-48101

MEDIUM

GHSL-2026-117: 7-Zip UEFI Capsule uninitialized heap memory disclosure

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Versions 9.21 through 26.00 contain an An uninitialized memory disclosure vulnerability in the UEFI capsule (.scap) parser in 7-Zip. The OpenCapsule function allocates a heap buffer of attacker-declared CapsuleImageSize (up to 1 GiB) without zero-initialization, then reads the file contents into it with ReadStream_FALSE whose return value is silently discarded. If the file is truncated, the unread tail of the buffer retains uninitialized heap memory, which is then exposed as extracted file content via GetStream. Version 26.0.1 fixes the issue.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 31.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-908
Status published
Products (2)
7-zip/7-zip 9.21 - 26.01
mcmilk/7-Zip >= 9.21, < 26.01
Published Jun 05, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 05, 2026