CVE-2014-8068
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Adobe Digital Editions (DE) 4 does not use encryption for transmission of data to adelogs.adobe.com, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network, as demonstrated by book-navigation information.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| adobe | digital_editions | 4.0 | |
References
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61551
- http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/06/adobe-spying-users-collecting-data-ebook-libraries/
- http://twitter.com/AdobeSecurity/statuses/519826275008282624
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97696
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61551
- http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/06/adobe-spying-users-collecting-data-ebook-libraries/
- http://twitter.com/AdobeSecurity/statuses/519826275008282624
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97696
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.