CVE-2018-10172 describes a vulnerability in 7-Zip through version 18.01 on Windows, where its "Large memory pages" feature grants the SeLockMemoryPrivilege to the user's account. This privilege, while intended for performance, could potentially be abused by attackers within a sandboxed process to bypass access restrictions. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 18.01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:7-zip:7-zip:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.