Threats / 7-Zip / CVE-2025-0411
CVE-2025-0411
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
7-Zip vulnerability
7-Zip fails to properly enforce Mark-of-the-Web security protections, allowing remote attackers to bypass this mechanism and execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A protection mechanism failure in 7-Zip's handling of Mark-of-the-Web allows remote code execution when processing untrusted archives. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Public proof-of-concept exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
9 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-06).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.65887 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: 7-Zip, 7-Zip. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious archive and deliver it to a target via email or web download, relying on the victim's browser or email client to strip the Mark-of-the-Web indicator.
Business
End users receive seemingly safe files that execute attacker code upon extraction, compromising workstations and enabling lateral movement into corporate networks.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I exploit the bypassed security feature to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user opening the archive in 7-Zip.
Business
Attackers gain immediate code execution at user privilege level, allowing data theft, malware installation, and persistence mechanisms on affected systems.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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