VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4158

high
Published 2016-06-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.3

Description

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application before 3.7.0.272 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the %SYSTEMDRIVE% directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
72%
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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobecreative_cloud{"endIncluding":"3.6.0.248"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.