CVE-2018-0601 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability in axpdfium v0.01, allowing an attacker to achieve privilege escalation by placing a malicious DLL in an unspecified directory. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.0 score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a local attacker, with user interaction, could achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:axpdfium_project:axpdfium:0.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.