Adobe Creative Cloud: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account

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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2016.2384
   Security update available for the Creative Cloud Desktop Application
                              12 October 2016

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           Adobe Creative Cloud
Publisher:         Adobe
Operating System:  Windows
Impact/Access:     Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2016-6935  

Original Bulletin: 
   https://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb16-34.html

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Adobe Security Bulletin

Security update available for the Creative Cloud Desktop Application

Release date: October 11, 2016

Vulnerability identifier: APSB16-34

Priority: 3

CVE number: CVE-2016-6935

Platform: Windows

Summary

Adobe has released a security update for the Creative Cloud Desktop 
Application for Windows. This update resolves an unquoted search path 
vulnerability in the Creative Cloud Desktop Application.

Affected versions

Product 						Affected version 		Platform

Creative Cloud Desktop Application Creative Cloud 	3.7.0.272 and earlier versions 	Windows

Solution

Adobe categorizes this update with the following priority rating and 
recommends users update their installation to the newest version:

Product 						Updated version Platform 	Priority rating

Creative Cloud Desktop Application Creative Cloud 	3.8.0.310 	Windows 	3

For more details, visit https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/desktop-app.html.

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Creative Cloud 
Packager to create deployment packages as described in the workflow documented
here.

Refer to this help page for more information on the Creative Cloud Packager.

Vulnerability Details

This update resolves an unquoted search path vulnerability in the Creative 
Cloud Desktop Application (CVE-2016-6935). This can cause the product to 
access resources in a parent path, possibly allowing local privilege 
escalation.

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank Cyril Vallicari / Ug_0 Security for reporting this 
issue (CVE-2016-6935) and for working with Adobe to help protect our 
customers.

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