CVE-2018-0598

high

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Self-extracting archive files created by IExpress bundled with Microsoft Windows allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-1408

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72748502/index.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-26

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H