CVE-2018-20211

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20211
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-02 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-01-11 20:05:00 UTC
DescriptionExifTool 8.32 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a %TEMP%\par-%username%\cache-exiftool-8.32 folder with a victim's username, and then copying a Trojan horse ws32_32.dll file into this new folder, aka DLL Hijacking. NOTE: 8.32 is an obsolete version from 2010 (9.x was released starting in 2012, and 10.x was released starting in 2015).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-427

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Exiftool Project Exiftool 8.32 All All All
Application Exiftool Project Exiftool 8.32 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Exiftool 8.3.2.0 DLL Hijacking ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Full Disclosure: CVE-2018-20211 - DLL Hijacking in Exiftool v8.3.2.0 FULLDISC seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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