{"id":"CVE-2018-0598","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-0598","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:51:51.143Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2018-06-26T14:29:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:31:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-426"],"affected":["microsoft/windows"],"epss":{"score":0.10038,"percentile":0.95594,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"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."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.10038,"from":0.09764,"percentile":0.95488},"summary":"EPSS moved from 9.8% to 10.0% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72748502/index.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/","source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72748502/index.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0598","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}