{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2018-20211", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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)." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "20181221 CVE-2018-20211 - DLL Hijacking in Exiftool v8.3.2.0", "refsource": "FULLDISC", "url": "http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/44" }, { "name": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150892/Exiftool-8.3.2.0-DLL-Hijacking.html", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150892/Exiftool-8.3.2.0-DLL-Hijacking.html" } ] } }