CVE-2018-20211

7.8 highEPSS 1.4%

High (7.8) in exiftool project exiftool. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-427
Published: 2019-01-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

exiftool_project:exiftool

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150892/Exiftool-8.3.2.0-DLL-Hijacking.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/44
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150892/Exiftool-8.3.2.0-DLL-Hijacking.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/44

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