Medium severity · published Jun 5, 2026
CVE-2026-48112
GHSL-2026-122 7-Zip Ar SYMDEF OOB Read
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Versions 9.18 through 26.00 contain a heap out-of-bounds read in 7-Zip Ar handler BSD SYMDEF parser. A 4-byte heap out-of-bounds read exists in the Unix ar archive parser in 7-Zip. When parsing a BSD-style __.SYMDEF symbol table, the ParseLibSymbols function reads a 32-bit namesSize field via Get32 at a position that can equal the buffer size, reading 4 bytes past the end of the heap allocation. This reads uninitialized heap data under the default allocator. Version 26.01 patches the issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 19% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
7Z
7-Zip · mcmilk
>= 9.34, < 26.01 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48112
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48112
Exploit
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2026-115_GHSL-2026-122_7-zip/
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