CVE-2020-24425

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Dreamweaver version 20.2

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 21, 2020 at 08:07 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:05 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorDreamweaver· also runs on 2 platforms

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 20.2
apple-macos (environment) · microsoft-windows (environment)

Runs on — not affected

The affected product only carries this flaw when running on these platforms. The platforms themselves are not vulnerable.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (1)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-427

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