CPANSA-Image-ExifTool-2018-20211: Image-ExifTool vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2019-01-02T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2019-01-02T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.8 Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

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).

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-20211

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).

Weakness CWE-427 : Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Image-ExifTool equal 8.32
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.8 High
2.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 6.8 Medium
Fixed

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Wed Jan 2 00:00:00 2019 First release

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