THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-24422
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-24422

Creative Cloud vulnerability

CVSS
7.0
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.2 (and earlier) and 2.1 (and earlier) for Windows is affected by an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Creative Cloud
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Published
2020-10-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, high 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 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-24422

  • Confirm whether Adobe Creative Cloud is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-24422.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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