PT-2018-8956 · Microsoft · Express+1

Eili Masami · Published 2018-06-26 · Updated 2023-05-18 · CVE-2018-0598

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns an untrusted search path vulnerability in self-extracting archive files created by IExpress, which is bundled with Microsoft Windows. This vulnerability allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Untrusted Search Path

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-426

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-0598

Affected Products

Express

Windows

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0598 · Security Note
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72748502/index.html · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/50729 · Telegram Post
• https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/50738 · Telegram Post