Alarming 7-Zip Security Flaw Exposes Your PC To Hackers Giving Full Admin Rights

There has been an ever-increasing number of vulnerabilities and malware rearing their ugly heads lately. One of the most common things these malware will attempt to do is gain elevated permissions to allow execution of its code without user interaction. Recently, a new vulnerability was found in the popular archival software 7-Zip that can potentially allow just that.

When utilizing 7-Zip's help menu, it executes the hh.exe, which can still run and use ActiveX objects. If you attempt to drag a .7z extension file to that window that appears, after malware or an attacker has run their piece to unlock the nasty potential of elevated access, it can potentially open up a command prompt with elevated administrator access. This is displayed in the video made by Kağan Çapar, a security researcher from Turkey.