CVEs-PoC/2018/CVE-2018-7884.md

### [CVE-2018-7884](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7884)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jun/1

#### Github
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