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CVE-2018-4991· NVD / CVE Program· CNA adobe

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 4.4.1.298 and earlier have an exploitable Improper certificate validation vulnerability.

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 4.4.1.298 and earlier have an exploitable Improper certificate validation vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to a security bypass.

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
May 19, 2018
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
4.0% · 90th percentile
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Action score

40

Plan

Add it to your regular patch cycle.

CVSS
39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 4.0%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
adobecreative cloud

Affected versions

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

  • adobe creative cloudup to 4.4.1.298 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 Creative Cloud Desktop Application 4.4.1.298 and earlier versions

    • Creative Cloud Desktop Application 4.4.1.298 and earlier versionsaffected

Same product

adobe: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2019-7959Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 4.6.1 and earlier have a using components with known vulnerabilities vulnerability.
    41Plan
  • CVE-2018-12829Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application before 4.6.1 has an improper certificate validation vulnerability.
    41Plan
  • CVE-2020-9669Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 5.1 and earlier have a lack of exploit mitigations vulnerability.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2019-8236Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 4.6.1 and earlier versions have Security Bypass vulnerability.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2019-7958Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 4.6.1 and earlier have an insecure inherited permissions vulnerability.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2017-3006Adobe Thor versions 3.9.5.353 and earlier have a vulnerability related to the use of improper resource permissions during the installation o
    38Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days-1% in 7 days

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Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

A certificate validation error is silently swallowed instead of terminating the connection. Often, code added for a test environment makes its way into production.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-295 class

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

Vulnerable

kotlin
override fun checkServerTrusted(chain: Array<X509Certificate>, type: String) {  // Left empty for the test environment}

Fixed

kotlin
val client = OkHttpClient.Builder()  .certificatePinner(    CertificatePinner.Builder()      .add("api.sirius.example", "sha256/…")      .build()  ).build()

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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