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MEDIUM CWE-122

CVE-2025-53816

GHSL-2025-058 - 7-Zip Multi-byte write heap buffer overflow in NCompress::NRar5::CDecoder

Ipavlov·7-Zip

5.5/ 10
CVSS 4.0
Medium severity
0.73%
EPSS exploit odds
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Higher than 55% of all CVEs
Not listed
CISA KEV catalog
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation on CISA's list.
Timeline
Published
Jul 17, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
First covered
Jul 3, 2026
Latest story
4 months ago

Summary

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Zeroes written outside heap buffer in RAR5 handler may lead to memory corruption and denial of service in versions of 7-Zip prior to 25.0.0. Version 25.0.0 contains a fix for the issue.

CWE-122Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Attack profile

Attack vectorLocal
ComplexityLow
RequirementsNone
PrivilegesNone
User interactionNone
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Affected products

  • Ipavlov 7-Zip< 25.0.0

References

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