AVACAST developed by eMPIA Technology, has a DLL Hijacking vulnerability, allowing authenticated local attackers to place a malicious DLL in a specific directory, resulting in arbitrary code execution with system privileges when the system loads the DLL.
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-427
eMPIA Technology|AVACAST - DLL Hijacking
Problem type
Affected products
eMPIA Technology
AVACAST
<= 5.10.10.43 - AFFECTED
References
twcert.org.tw
https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-10884-f9c21-1.html
twcert.org.tw
https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-10885-02d83-2.html
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-m4rm-63h7-9mj5
AVACAST developed by eMPIA Technology, has a DLL Hijacking vulnerability, allowing authenticated...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m4rm-63h7-9mj5AVACAST developed by eMPIA Technology, has a DLL Hijacking vulnerability, allowing authenticated local attackers to place a malicious DLL in a specific directory, resulting in arbitrary code execution with system privileges when the system loads the DLL.
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