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1 vulnerability found for Visual C++ Redistributable Installer by Microsoft Corporation
jvndb-2018-000051
Vulnerability from jvndb
Published
2018-05-17 14:57
Modified
2019-07-05 16:41
Severity ?
Summary
The installer of Visual C++ Redistributable may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries
Details
The installer of Visual C++ Redistributable provided Microsoft contains an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries in the same directory as the installer (CWE-427).
Microsoft states that the root cause of this vulnerability is "Application Directory (App Dir) DLL planting" and attacks exploiting this vulnerability are limited, thus there is no plan to release any security updates to address this issue.
For details, refer to "Application Directory (App Dir) DLL planting" released by Microsoft.
References
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Impacted products
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{
"@rdf:about": "https://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2018/JVNDB-2018-000051.html",
"dc:date": "2019-07-05T16:41+09:00",
"dcterms:issued": "2018-05-17T14:57+09:00",
"dcterms:modified": "2019-07-05T16:41+09:00",
"description": "The installer of Visual C++ Redistributable provided Microsoft contains an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries in the same directory as the installer (CWE-427).\r\nMicrosoft states that the root cause of this vulnerability is \"Application Directory (App Dir) DLL planting\" and attacks exploiting this vulnerability are limited, thus there is no plan to release any security updates to address this issue.\r\n\r\nFor details, refer to \"Application Directory (App Dir) DLL planting\" released by Microsoft.",
"link": "https://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2018/JVNDB-2018-000051.html",
"sec:cpe": {
"#text": "cpe:/a:microsoft:visual_c%2B%2B_redistributable_installer",
"@product": "Visual C++ Redistributable Installer",
"@vendor": "Microsoft Corporation",
"@version": "2.2"
},
"sec:cvss": [
{
"@score": "6.8",
"@severity": "Medium",
"@type": "Base",
"@vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
"@version": "2.0"
},
{
"@score": "7.8",
"@severity": "High",
"@type": "Base",
"@vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"@version": "3.0"
}
],
"sec:identifier": "JVNDB-2018-000051",
"sec:references": [
{
"#text": "https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN81196185/index.html",
"@id": "JVN#81196185",
"@source": "JVN"
},
{
"#text": "https://jvn.jp/en/ta/JVNTA91240916/index.html",
"@id": "JVNTA#91240916",
"@source": "JVN"
},
{
"#text": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0599",
"@id": "CVE-2018-0599",
"@source": "CVE"
},
{
"#text": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0599",
"@id": "CVE-2018-0599",
"@source": "NVD"
},
{
"#text": "https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/security/vulnerabilities/cwe.html",
"@id": "CWE-Other",
"@title": "No Mapping(CWE-Other)"
}
],
"title": "The installer of Visual C++ Redistributable may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries"
}