CVE-2021-36002 Privilege escalation in Captivate

What is CVE-2021-36002?

CVE-2021-36002 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Captivate, published on 1 Sep 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Adobe Captivate version 11.5.5 (and earlier) is affected by an Creation of Temporary File In Directory With Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in the context of the current user. The attacker must plant a malicious file in a particular location of the victim's machine. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must launch the Captivate Installer.

Weakness: CWE-668, CWE-379

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-36002?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Captivate.

How do I fix CVE-2021-36002?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-36002 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-36002 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-36002 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Captivate

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

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-p4pq-252w-q8gg.