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Update now: 7-Zip fixes RCE flaw exploitable with malicious archives

7-Zip 26.02 patches an RCE flaw triggered by crafted archives—organisations should treat this as urgent given the tool's silent prevalence across endpoints and CI/CD pipelines.

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Filed by BleepingComputer18 July 20261 min readRead at source ↗

7-Zip version 26.02 was released on June 25 to fix a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute malicious code by convincing users to open specially crafted compressed files. [...]

Editorial Analysis

Why it matters

7-Zip's widespread but often unmanaged presence in enterprises creates a large, untracked attack surface that this RCE flaw now makes exploitable.

What to do

Run a software inventory scan for all 7-Zip versions and enforce an immediate update to 26.02.

Board brief

A critical flaw in a widely deployed compression utility requires immediate enterprise-wide patching to prevent remote code execution.

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