Adobe Audition < 14.4 Memory leak (APSB21-62)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152000

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Synopsis

The Adobe Audition instance installed on the remote host is affected by a memory leak vulnerability.

Description

The version of Adobe Audition installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 14.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the APSB21-62 advisory.

- Adobe Audition version 14.2 (and earlier) is affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary memory information in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-36003)

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 Audition version 14.4 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152000

File Name: adobe_audition_apsb21-62.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 7/22/2021

Updated: 10/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36003

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:audition

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36003

CWE: 125

IAVA: 2021-A-0343-S

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