Untrusted search path vulnerability in ViX version 2.21.148.0 allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in ViX version 2.21.148.0 allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

ViX provided by K_OKADA is a Graphics Viewer Software for Windows. ViX contains an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries contained in the same directory as an image file (CWE-427). During the meeting of Committee for authorizing the disclosure of unresolved vulnerabilities held on December 5, 2017, it was judged that an advisory for this vulnerability shall be disclosed since all the criteria and conditions described below which are stated in Standards for Handling Vulnerability related Information of Software Products and Others and Information Security Early Warning Partnership Guideline have been satisfied. 1. The developer of the product is unreachable 2. Existence of vulnerability has been verified 3. Not disclosing this case may result in the risk that product users will have no means to know of the existence of the vulnerability in the product 4. There are no particular reasons that would make disclosure inappropriate