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CVE-2018-20211

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score0.0770%
EPSS Percentile26.48th
PublishedJan 2, 2019
Last ModifiedNov 21, 2024

Vulnerability Description

ExifTool 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).

Affected Platforms (CPE)

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Exiftool Project

Exiftool

= 8.32

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