A DLL injection vulnerability in the Intel IoT Developers Kit 4.0 installer may allow an authenticated user to potentially escalate privile…

published 2018-09-12 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-4141

cvss: 4.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits: 0; none known

A DLL injection vulnerability in the Intel IoT Developers Kit 4.0 installer may allow an authenticated user to potentially escalate privileges using file modification via local access.

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Exploit prediction

0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	4.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Intel Corporation Intel IoT Developers Kit

Classification

Weakness

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

intel.com /content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00173.html
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-12163
NVD CVE-2018-12163

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