ExifTool 8.32 DLL Hijacking Vulnerability

CVE-2018-20211 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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).

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