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Adobe Digital Editions <= 4.5.11.187245 Privilege Escalation (macOS) (APSB21-26)

high Nessus Plugin ID 148710

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Synopsis

An application installed on the remote macOS host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

Adobe Digital Editions version 4.5.11.187245 (and earlier) is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability during installation. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary file system write in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

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 Digital Editions version 4.5.11.187606 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3f95c468

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148710

File Name: macosx_adobe_digital_editions_apsb21-26.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 4/16/2021

Updated: 9/16/2021

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21100

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:digital_editions

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Settings/ParanoidReport, Host/MacOSX/Version, installed_sw/Adobe Digital Editions

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21100

IAVA: 2021-A-0167-S