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Adobe Illustrator Privilege Escalation Vulnerability-Mac OS X (332644)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

General

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

5 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with Adobe Illustrator and is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaw exists due to error in application which installs a large number of '.EXE' and '.DLL' files with write-access permission for the Everyone group.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Adobe Illustrator CS2 on Mac OS X.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Apply patch from vendor. Please see the references for more information.

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