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- A vulnerability has been discovered in the popular 7-Zip app for Windows.
- This would allow a local user to gain higher-level access.
File archiving tools like WinZip and WinRAR have been around for decades now, allowing you to compress files to save storage space and unpack them when you need to access the files in question. But 7-Zip became one of the most popular file archiving tools in the years following its release owing to its support for a variety of zip formats.
Now, Turkish Github user kagancapar has uncovered a major vulnerability in the Windows version of 7-Zip (h/t: Tom’s Hardware). More specifically, the vulnerability enables unauthorized privilege escalation and command execution, meaning that someone with limited access to your PC could gain admin access and run a variety of commands and apps.