CVE-2018-0598

moderate-risk
Published 2018-06-26

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Self-extracting archive files created by IExpress bundled with Microsoft Windows allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Do I need to act?

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13.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 86% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Windows

Affected Vendors

Microsoft

References (6)

Third Party Advisory http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72748502/index.html
Broken Link https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulne...
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/
Third Party Advisory http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72748502/index.html
Broken Link https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulne...
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/
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moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 12/34 · Low
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal