An issue was discovered in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.6 and earlier versions.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• adobe digital editionsup to 4.5.6 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (adobe). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• n/a Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.6 and earlier versions

  • Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.6 and earlier versionsaffected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2016-0954Adobe Digital Editions before 4.5.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecif
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• CVE-2019-7095Adobe Digital Editions versions 4.5.10.185749 and below have a heap overflow vulnerability.
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• CVE-2018-12814Adobe Digital Editions versions 4.5.8 and below have a heap overflow vulnerability.
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• CVE-2018-12813Adobe Digital Editions versions 4.5.8 and below have a heap overflow vulnerability.
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• CVE-2017-11274Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable use after free vulnerability.
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• CVE-2017-3092Adobe Digital Editions versions 4.5.4 and earlier contain an insecure library loading vulnerability.
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.