Adobe Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

BID:16451

Info

Adobe Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 16451
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 31 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 07 2006 08:56PM
Credit: Sudhakar Govindavajhala and Andrew Appel discovered these issues.
Vulnerable: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe Help Center 0
Adobe Creative Suite 2.0
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Adobe Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Multiple Adobe products are susceptible to privilege-escalation vulnerabilities. These issues are due to insecure permissions on unspecified executable files.

These issues allow unprivileged local users to execute arbitrary machine code with elevated privileges.

Exploit / POC

Adobe Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

Adobe Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Adobe has released an advisory, along with fixes to address these issues. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.


Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Adobe Illustrator CS2

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard

References

Adobe Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

References:

© CVE.report 2026

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report