7-Zip · 7-Zip
CVE-2025-0411
7-Zip Mark-of-the-Web Bypass Vulnerability
What it is
7-Zip Mark-of-the-Web Bypass Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass the Mark-of-the-Web protection mechanism 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 handling of archived files. When extracting files from a crafted archive that bears the Mark-of-the-Web, 7-Zip does not propagate the Mark-of-the-Web to the extracted files. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. Was ZDI-CAN-25456.
CISA: 7-Zip contains a protection mechanism failure vulnerability that allows remote attackers to bypass the Mark-of-the-Web security feature to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.
What to do
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Deadline for US federal agencies: February 27, 2025
- Added to the CISA list
- February 6, 2025
- Published
- January 25, 2025
- Severity
- High 7.0 CVSS 3.0
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 67% in the top 0.7% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-693
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (1)
Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.