CVE-2018-0952

HIGH

Microsoft Windows and Visual Studio <2016 - Elevation of Privilege

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2018-0952. PoCs published by Atredis Partners, atredispartners.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a detailed technical writeup explaining CVE-2018-0952, a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service. It describes the root cause (lack of client impersonation during file operations), exploitation steps involving mount points and symlinks, and includes references to a PoC.

Description

An Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exists when Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector allows file creation in arbitrary locations, aka "Diagnostic Hub Standard Collector Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows 10 Servers.

Exploits (2)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED
by Atredis Partners · textlocalwindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45244

This is a detailed technical writeup explaining CVE-2018-0952, a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service. It describes the root cause (lack of client impersonation during file operations), exploitation steps involving mount points and symlinks, and includes references to a PoC.

Classification
Writeup 100%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Complex
Reliability
Racy
Target: Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Visual Studio 2015/2017
Auth required
Prerequisites: Local user access · Ability to create mount points and symlinks · Write permissions in a scratch directory
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →
nomisec WORKING POC 111 stars
by atredispartners · poc
https://github.com/atredispartners/CVE-2018-0952-SystemCollector

This repository contains a functional proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2018-0952, a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service. The exploit leverages a TOCTOU race condition and DLL hijacking to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Complex
Reliability
Racy
Target: Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Visual Studio 2015/2017
No auth needed
Prerequisites: User access to a Windows system with the vulnerable service running · Ability to write files to a user-writable directory
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105048
Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45244/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041466

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0623
EPSS Percentile 92.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (11)
microsoft/visual_studio_2015
microsoft/visual_studio_2017
microsoft/visual_studio_2017 15.8
microsoft/windows_10
microsoft/windows_10 1607
microsoft/windows_10 1703
microsoft/windows_10 1709
microsoft/windows_10 1803
microsoft/windows_server_2016
microsoft/windows_server_2016 1709
... and 1 more
Published Aug 15, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026