CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-0599
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Visual C++ Redistributable allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN81196185/index.html Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN81196185/index.html Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/ Patch, Vendor Advisory