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Adobe Lightroom Classic < 10.4 Privilege escalation (APSB21-97) (macOS)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181595

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Adobe Lightroom Classic installed on the remote macOS host is prior to 10.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the APSB21-97 advisory.

 - Adobe Lightroom Classic 10.3 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Offline Lightroom Classic installer. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges. User interaction is required before product installation to abuse this vulnerability.
 (CVE-2021-40776)

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 Lightroom Classic version 10.4 or later.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/lightroom/apsb21-97.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181595

File Name: macos_adobe_lightroom_classic_apsb21-97.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 9/19/2023

Updated: 11/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40776

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/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:lightroom

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Adobe Lightroom Classic, Host/MacOSX/Version, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40776

CWE: 379

IAVA: 2021-A-0511-S