CVE-2018-20211: Exiftool Project Exiftool

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ExifTool 8.32 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a %TEMP%\par-%username%\cache-exiftool-8.32 folder with a victim's username, and then copying a Trojan horse ws32_32.dll file into this new folder, aka DLL Hijacking. NOTE: 8.32 is an obsolete version from 2010 (9.x was released starting in 2012, and 10.x was released starting in 2015).

Affected products

• Exiftool Project Exiftool: version 8.32 only

Published 2019-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.