CVE-2018-0598
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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.0%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 10.04% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-426
- Affected
- microsoft/windows
- Source
- vultures@jpcert.or.jp
EPSS 10.0% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72748502/index.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/Broken Link
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72748502/index.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/Broken Link
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.