CVE-2017-3098 Path traversal in Adobe Captivate 9 and earlier.

What is CVE-2017-3098?

CVE-2017-3098 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in Adobe Captivate 9 and earlier., published on 20 Jun 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Adobe Captivate versions 9 and earlier have a remote code execution vulnerability in the quiz reporting feature that could be abused to read and write arbitrary files to the server.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3098?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Captivate.

How do I fix CVE-2017-3098?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3098 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2017-3098 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3098 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Captivate 9 and earlier.

• 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-2005-4708 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2021-21011 Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Adobe Captivate 2019 High 7.0
• CVE-2021-36002 Privilege escalation in Captivate Medium 5.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qhqj-4phh-7v5p.