Security Advisory

CVE-2018-20211

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-01-02 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 11:58:18
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

ExifTool 8.32 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a %TEMP%par-%username%cache-exiftool-8.32 folder with a victims 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).