CVE-2005-4708 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2005-4708?

CVE-2005-4708 is a high-severity vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, published on 2 Feb 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Adobe Macromedia MX 2004 products, Captivate, Contribute 2, Contribute 3, and eLicensing client install the Macromedia Licensing Service with the Users group permitted to configure the service, including the path to executable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code as Local System.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4708?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Adobe Captivate, Adobe Contribute, Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Elicensing, Adobe Fireworks and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2005-4708?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4708 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2005-4708 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4708 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player

• CVE-2017-3098 Path traversal in Adobe Captivate 9 and earlier. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-3191 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2017-3087 Information disclosure in Adobe Captivate 9 and earlier. High 7.5
• CVE-2021-21011 Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Adobe Captivate 2019 High 7.0
• CVE-2021-36002 Privilege escalation in Captivate Medium 5.0

All Adobe Flash Player vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-54pm-xxpg-8wgg.