Adobe Prelude < 22.6.1 Memory leak (APSB23-67)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186864

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Adobe Prelude installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 22.6.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the APSB23-67 advisory.

- Adobe Prelude versions 22.6 and earlier are affected by an Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2023-44362)

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 Prelude version 22.6.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186864

File Name: adobe_prelude_apsb23-67.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 12/14/2023

Updated: 12/15/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44362

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:prelude

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44362

CWE: 824

IAVA: 2023-A-0681

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