Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable use after free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

The version of Adobe Digital Editions installed on the remote macOS host is prior to 4.5.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the APSB17-27 advisory.

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable use after free vulnerability. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-11274, CVE-2017-11279)

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier versions 4.5.4 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption     vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-3091)

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-11275)

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-11276, CVE-2017-11277, CVE-2017-11278,     CVE-2017-11280)

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has a security bypass vulnerability. (CVE-2017-11272)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Adobe Digital Editions installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 4.5.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - An XML external entity (XXE) parsing flaw exists that can lead to     information disclosure. (CVE-2017-11272)

  - An unspecified buffer overflow vulnerability may result in the     execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-11274)

  - Multiple unspecified memory corruption flaws exist that can cause     a memory address disclosure. (CVE-2017-3091, CVE-2017-11275,     CVE-2017-11276, CVE-2017-11277, CVE-2017-11278, CVE-2017-11279,     CVE-2017-11280)

The version of Adobe Digital Editions installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 4.5.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the APSB17-27 advisory.

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable use after free vulnerability. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-11274, CVE-2017-11279)

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier versions 4.5.4 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption     vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-3091)

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-11275)

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-11276, CVE-2017-11277, CVE-2017-11278,     CVE-2017-11280)

  - Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has a security bypass vulnerability. (CVE-2017-11272)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
209356	Adobe Digital Editions < 4.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-27) (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
102325	Adobe Digital Editions < 4.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-27) (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
102324	Adobe Digital Editions < 4.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-27)	Nessus	Windows	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2017-11279

high

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical

critical