VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-12414

critical
Published 2017-08-03 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Format Factory 4.1.0 has a DLL Hijacking Vulnerability because an untrusted search path is used for msimg32.dll, WindowsCodecs.dll, and dwmapi.dll.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.kth.ninja/2017/08/format-factory-dll-hijacking.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pcfreetimeformat_factory4.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-426

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.