Adobe Captivate versions 9 and earlier have an information disclosure vulnerability resulting from abuse of the quiz reporting feature in Ca

Affected versions

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

• adobe captivateup to 9.0 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 Captivate 9 and earlier.

  • Adobe Captivate 9 and earlier.affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2017-3098Adobe Captivate versions 9 and earlier have a remote code execution vulnerability in the quiz reporting feature that could be abused to read
  41Plan
• CVE-2010-3191Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Captivate 5.0.0.596, and possibly other versions, allows local users, and possibly remote attac
  39Monitor
• CVE-2021-36002Adobe Captivate Installer Creation of Temporary File In Directory With Incorrect Permissions Could Lead To Privilege Escalation
  29Monitor
• CVE-2021-21011Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Adobe Captivate 2019
  29Monitor
• CVE-2005-4708Adobe Macromedia MX 2004 products, Captivate, Contribute 2, Contribute 3, and eLicensing client install the Macromedia Licensing Service wit
  28Monitor

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.