CVE-2018-7884
—CVSS 3.0
7.8 high
EPSS
<1%p59
Published
()
Modified
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.
- Vendors
- displaylink
- Products
- core software cleaner
- Weakness
- CWE-426
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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