Adobe Lightroom Classic < 10.4 Privilege Escalation (APSB21-97) (macOS)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181595

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Adobe Lightroom Classic installed on the remote host is prior to 10.4. It is, therefore, affected by privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability exists due to creation of temporary file in directory with incorrect permissions, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Lightroom Classic 10.4 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?02ed35c3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181595

File Name: macos_adobe_lightroom_classic_apsb21-97.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 9/19/2023

Updated: 9/19/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40776

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/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:lightroom

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MacOSX/Version, installed_sw/Adobe Lightroom Classic

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40776

IAVA: 2021-A-0511