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CVE-2018-20211
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-01-02T18:29:01.373 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:52:27.510

Summary

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).

Affected products

exiftool_project — exiftool

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References

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