Detections
Analytics
CVE-2018-20211
high
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).
References
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/44
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150892/Exiftool-8.3.2.0-DLL-Hijacking.html