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CVE-2020-24425: Privilege escalation vulnerability in Dreamweaver version 20.2

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-10-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

Dreamweaver version 20.2 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation. Successful exploitation could result in a local user with permissions to write to the file system running system commands with administrator privileges.

Affected products

• Adobe Dreamweaver Desktop: through 20.2

References

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/dreamweaver/apsb20-55.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/dreamweaver/apsb20-55.html

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