Adobe Dreamweaver up to 18.0 Direct Download Installer privilege escalation

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adobe Dreamweaver up to 18.0. This affects some unknown processing of the component Direct Download Installer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 07/18/2019. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-7956 since 02/12/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/19/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Vendor

• Adobe

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• Dreamweaver

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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02/12/2019 CVE assigned
07/18/2019 +156 days Advisory disclosed
07/19/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
07/19/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: adobe.com
CVE: CVE-2019-7956 (🔒)Created: 07/19/2019 10:40 AM
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