CVE-2018-20211

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.38% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.8

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-427USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
exiftool project exiftool= 8.32nvdUScpe:2.3:a:exiftool_project:exiftool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-01-02modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/Patchcnnvd
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150892/Exiftool-8.3.2.0-DLL-Hijacking.html cnnvd
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/44 cnnvd
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150892/Exiftool-8.3.2.0-DLL-Hijacking.html enisa_euvd
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/44 enisa_euvd
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150892/Exiftool-8.3.2.0-DLL-Hijacking.htmlExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/44ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisorynvd

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