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CVE-2006-0525

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Multiple Adobe products, including (1) Photoshop CS2, (2) Illustrator CS2, and (3) Adobe Help Center, install a large number of .EXE and .DLL files with write-access permission for the Everyone group, which allows local users to gain privileges via Trojan horse programs.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat for Edge: 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.0.5, 4.0.5a, 4.0.5c (+12)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: 3.0, 4.0, 4.0.5, 4.0.5a, 4.0.5c, 4.5 (+13)
• Adobe Creative Suite: 1.0, 1.3, 2.0
• Adobe Illustrator: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, cs, cs3
• Adobe InDesign Desktop: cs, cs3
• Adobe Pagemaker: 6.5, 7.0
• Adobe Photoshop: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0.2, le
• Adobe Premiere: 1.5
• Adobe Version Cue: 1.0, 1.0.1, gold

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18698
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015577
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015578
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015579
• http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332644.html
• http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/papers/winval.pdf
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/953860
• http://www.osvdb.org/22908
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423587/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16451
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0431
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24464

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