Adobe Premiere Elements Privilege Escalation (APSB22-43)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164089

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Synopsis

The remote host has an application that is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The version of the Adobe Premiere Elements installed on the remote host is prior to 2022 build 20.0 (20220702.Git.main.e4f8578). It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability:

- A privilege escalation vulnerability exists due to an uncontrolled search path element. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this to escalate privileges.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade Adobe Premier Elements to build 20.0 (20220702.Git.main.e4f8578)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164089

File Name: adobe_premiere_elems_apsb22-43.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 8/12/2022

Updated: 12/7/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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:premiere_elements

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Adobe Premiere Elements

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34235

IAVA: 2022-A-0322

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