CVE-2018-15976

Technical Communications Suite vulnerability

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

5.4%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Adobe Technical Communications Suite versions 1.0.5.1 and below have an insecure library loading (dll hijacking) vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Technical Communications Suite

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Published

2018-10-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Adobe Technical Communications Suite is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-15976.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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