Adobe Dreamweaver 20.0 < 21.0 Privilege Escalation (APSB20-55)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141835

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Synopsis

The Adobe Dreamweaver instance installed on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The version of Adobe Dreamweaver installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 21.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the APSB20-55 advisory.

- Dreamweaver version 20.2 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation. Successful exploitation could result in a local user with permissions to write to the file system running system commands with administrator privileges.
(CVE-2020-24425)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Dreamweaver version 21.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141835

File Name: adobe_dreamweaver_apsb20-55.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 10/23/2020

Updated: 10/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24425

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:dreamweaver

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Adobe Dreamweaver

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24425

IAVA: 2020-A-0490-S

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