Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-7804

Title: 7-Zip Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-7804.

CWE Category CWE-426

Published Date May 22, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.81%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-7804: Untrusted search path vulnerability in 7 Zip for Windows 16.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Impacted Vendors

igor_pavlov 1

7-zip 1

Reference Links

http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000211 http://www.7-zip.org/history.txt https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN76780067/index.html http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000211 http://www.7-zip.org/history.txt https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN76780067/index.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns