CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-3072

Improper Access Control

Published: May 13, 2015 | Modified: Jan 05, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
10 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.14 and 11.x before 11.0.11 on Windows and OS X allow attackers to bypass intended restrictions on JavaScript API execution via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3060, CVE-2015-3061, CVE-2015-3062, CVE-2015-3063, CVE-2015-3064, CVE-2015-3065, CVE-2015-3066, CVE-2015-3067, CVE-2015-3068, CVE-2015-3069, CVE-2015-3071, CVE-2015-3073, and CVE-2015-3074.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.0 (including) 10.1.0 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.1 (including) 10.1.1 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.2 (including) 10.1.2 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.3 (including) 10.1.3 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.4 (including) 10.1.4 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.5 (including) 10.1.5 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.6 (including) 10.1.6 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.7 (including) 10.1.7 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.8 (including) 10.1.8 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.9 (including) 10.1.9 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.10 (including) 10.1.10 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.11 (including) 10.1.11 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.12 (including) 10.1.12 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 10.1.13 (including) 10.1.13 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.0 (including) 11.0.0 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.1 (including) 11.0.1 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.2 (including) 11.0.2 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.3 (including) 11.0.3 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.4 (including) 11.0.4 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.5 (including) 11.0.5 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.6 (including) 11.0.6 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.7 (including) 11.0.7 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.8 (including) 11.0.8 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.9 (including) 11.0.9 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 11.0.10 (including) 11.0.10 (including)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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