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CVE-2018-16545

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

Kaizen Asset Manager (Enterprise Edition) and Training Manager (Enterprise Edition) allow a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution via file impersonation. For example, a malicious dynamic-link library (dll) assumed the identity of a temporary (tmp) file (isxdl.dll) and an executable file assumed the identity of a temporary file (996E.temp).

Affected products

• Kzsoftware Asset Manager: through 1.0.1188.0
• Kzsoftware Training Manager: through 1.0.1230.0

References

• https://github.com/GitHubAssessments/CVE_Assessment_03_2018/blob/master/Kaizen_Report.pdf
• https://github.com/GitHubAssessments/CVE_Assessment_03_2018/blob/master/Kaizen_Report.pdf

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