Multiple DLL side loading vulnerabilities were found in the Event Viewer Snapin that ships with Windows. These issues can be exploited by loading various COM components as an embedded OLE object. When instantiating vulnerable object Windows will try to load the DLL elsext.dll from the current working directory. If an attacker convinces the user to open a specially crafted (Office) document from a directory also containing the attacker's DLL file, it is possible to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the target user. This can potentially result in the attacker taking complete control of the affected system. Continue reading...
