Detections
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Adobe Acrobat Help Page XSS (Mac OS X)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 77814
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Synopsis
The version of Adobe Acrobat on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.Description
The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote host is a version equal to or prior to 9.5.2. It is, therefore, affected by an input validation error related to the Help page that can allow cross-site scripting attacks.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 Acrobat 10.1.11 / 11.0.08 or later.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 77814
File Name: macosx_adobe_acrobat_CVE-2014-5315.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Agent: macosx
Family: MacOS X Local Security Checks
Published: 9/23/2014
Updated: 7/14/2018
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MacOSX/Version, installed_sw/Adobe Acrobat
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2010
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-5315
BID: 69791