: It is often grouped with other critical vulnerabilities (like CVE-2023-52168) that could potentially allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Affected Software and Mitigation Affected Versions : 7-Zip versions prior to 24.01 .
This vulnerability is an identified in the NTFS handler of 7-Zip.
Outside of this specific vulnerability, a file is a proprietary archive format used for high-quality data compression, encryption, and error recovery.