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Vuln ID Summary CVSS Severity
CVE-2018-7884

An issue was discovered in DisplayLink Core Software Cleaner Application 8.2.1956. When the drivers are updated to a newer version, the product launches a process as SYSTEM to uninstall the old version: cl_1956.exe is run as SYSTEM on the %systemroot%\Temp folder, where any user can write a DLL (e.g., version.dll) to perform DLL Hijacking and elevate privileges to SYSTEM.

Published: June 05, 2018; 5:29:01 PM -0400
V3.0: 7.8 HIGH
V2.0: 9.3 HIGH