CVE-2006-0525 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2006-0525?

CVE-2006-0525 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, 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

Multiple Adobe products, including (1) Photoshop CS2, (2) Illustrator CS2, and (3) Adobe Help Center, install a large number of .EXE and .DLL files with write-access permission for the Everyone group, which allows local users to gain privileges via Trojan horse programs.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0525?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Pagemaker and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2006-0525?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0525 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2006-0525 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-0525 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-f8mf-jghc-2hh5.