CVE-2017-3098 (GCVE-0-2017-3098)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-20 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:16
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Information Disclosure
Assigner
adobe CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 803 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/captiva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038657 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Adobe Captivate 9 and earlier. Affected: Adobe Captivate 9 and earlier.
Date Public
2017-06-20 00:00
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