CVE-2026-48101 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.05.2026 Published: 05.06.2026 Updated: 05.06.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor mcmilk
Product 7-Zip
Versions
  • Version >= 9.21, < 26.01 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource CWE