CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-40708

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

Published: Sep 29, 2021 | Modified: Oct 04, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Adobe Genuine Service versions 7.3 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the AGSService installer. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve read / write privileges to execute arbitrary code. User interaction is required to abuse this vulnerability.

Weakness

The product creates a temporary file in a directory whose permissions allow unintended actors to determine the file’s existence or otherwise access that file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Genuine_service Adobe * 7.3 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References