CVE-2018-20211

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-427

Description

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: 8.32

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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