CVE-2018-7884

An issue was discovered in DisplayLink Core Software Cleaner Application 8.2.1956

published June 5, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00929 · 60.2th percentile
Published
2018-06-05T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 JUN 21:00Z
    An issue was discovered in DisplayLink Core Software Cleaner Application 8.2.1956
    cvelistv5