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CVE-2005-4708
Adobe Macromedia MX 2004 products, Captivate, Contribute 2, Contribute 3, and eLicensing client install the Macromedia Licensing Service…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 31% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Adobe Macromedia MX 2004 products, Captivate, Contribute 2, Contribute 3, and eLicensing client install the Macromedia Licensing Service with the Users group permitted to configure the service, including the path to executable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code as Local System.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
17
- 1014162 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1014161 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1014165 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-04.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20060131 Windows Access Control Demystified (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#953860 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 1014166 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/papers/winval.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1014159 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 17248 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1014163 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1014164 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2005-0723 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 15654 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1014158 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1014160 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 13925 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-4701 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-4708)Record last updated .