A DLL hijacking vulnerability Trend Micro HouseCall for Home Networks version 5.3.1063 and below could allow an attacker to use a malicious DLL to escalate privileges and perform arbitrary code execution. An attacker must already have user privileges on the machine to exploit this vulnerability.

A DLL hijacking vulnerability Trend Micro HouseCall for Home Networks version 5.3.1063 and below could allow an attacker to use a malicious DLL to escalate privileges and perform arbitrary code execution. An attacker must already have user privileges on the machine to exploit this vulnerability.

HouseCall for Home Networks (Windows Edition) provided by Trend Micro Incorporated contains an issue with the DLL search path. By reading a malicious DLL placed in the folder specified by the PATH environment variable, arbitrary code with an escalated privilege may be executed (CWE-427). Trend Micro Incorporated reported this vulnerability to JPCERT/CC to notify users of its solution through JVN.