CVE-2024-20754 HIGH

CVE-2024-20754: Lightroom Desktop | Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426)

Vendor Adobe
Product Lightroom Desktop
Weakness CWE-426
Published March 18, 2024
Last update December 12, 2024

CVSS base score

7.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Lightroom Desktop versions 7.1.2 and earlier are affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. If the application uses a search path to locate critical resources such as programs, then an attacker could modify that search path to point to a malicious program, which the targeted application would then execute. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 18, 2024 CVE published
December 12, 2024 Record updated