ScreenToGif is a screen recording tool. In versions from 2.42.1 and prior, ScreenToGif is vulnerable to DLL sideloading via version.dll . When the portable executable is run from a user-writable directory, it loads version.dll from the application directory instead of the Windows System32 directory, allowing arbitrary code execution in the user's context. This is especially impactful because ScreenToGif is primarily distributed as a portable application intended to be run from user-writable locations. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

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Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Nickemanarin
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description ScreenToGif is a screen recording tool. In versions from 2.42.1 and prior, ScreenToGif is vulnerable to DLL sideloading via version.dll . When the portable executable is run from a user-writable directory, it loads version.dll from the application directory instead of the Windows System32 directory, allowing arbitrary code execution in the user's context. This is especially impactful because ScreenToGif is primarily distributed as a portable application intended to be run from user-writable locations. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Title DLL Sideloading in ScreenToGif
Weaknesses CWE-426
CWE-427
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-20T21:20:13.758Z

Reserved: 2026-03-17T21:17:08.886Z

Link: CVE-2026-33156

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-20T21:19:59.766Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-03-20T21:17:16.070

Modified: 2026-03-23T14:32:02.800

Link: CVE-2026-33156

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-03-23T09:52:41Z

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