DisplayLink Core Software Cleaner Application Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

DisplayLink Core Software Cleaner Application is a dedicated removal tool for uninstalling DisplayLink software. A security vulnerability exists in DisplayLink Core Software Cleaner Application 8.2.1956. The vulnerability can be exploited to hijack a DLL and elevate its privileges to SYSTE by...

CVE-2018-7884

DisplayLink Core Software Cleaner Application 8.2.1956 has a privilege-elevation issue when drivers are updated: cl_1956.exe runs as SYSTEM in the systemroot\Temp folder, where a user can place a DLL (for example version.dll) to enable DLL hijacking and escalate to SYSTEM. This is a local vulnera...