CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-7884

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-06-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-05
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

An issue was discovered in DisplayLink Core Software Cleaner Application 8.2.1956. When the drivers are updated to a newer version, the product launches a process as SYSTEM to uninstall the old version: cl_1956.exe is run as SYSTEM on the %systemroot%\Temp folder, where any user can write a DLL (e.g., version.dll) to perform DLL Hijacking and elevate privileges to SYSTEM.

Affected configurations

• displaylink core software cleaner 8.2.1956

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References