Adobe security alert.
June 11, 2019
Advisory overview
Qualys Vulnerability R&D Lab has released new vulnerability checks in the Enterprise TruRisk Platform to protect organizations against 5 vulnerabilities that were fixed in 2 bulletins announced today by Adobe. Customers can immediately audit their networks for these and other new vulnerabilities by accessing their Qualys subscription. Visit Qualys Security Blog to prioritize remediation.
Non-Qualys customers can audit their network for these and other vulnerabilities by signing up for a Qualys Free Trial, or by trying Qualys Community Edition.
Vulnerability details
Adobe has released 2 security bulletins to fix newly discovered flaws in their software. Qualys has released the following checks for these new vulnerabilities:
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Adobe Security Update for Flash Player (APSB19-30)
- Severity
- Critical 4
- Qualys ID
- 371835
- Vendor Reference
- APSB19-30
- CVE Reference
- CVE-2019-7845, CVE-2019-8075
- CVSS Scores
- Base 6.8 / Temporal 5.6
- Description
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Adobe Flash Player is a Cross-platform plugin plays animations, videos and sound files in .SWF format.
This update fixes security bug(s) in Adobe Flash Player.
Affected Versions:
Adobe Flash Player versions prior to 32.0.0.207QID Detection Logic :
This QID checks for vulnerable version of Flash Player. - Consequence
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An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise Confidentiality, Integrity and/or Availability.
- Solution
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Adobe has released fix to address this issue. Customers are advised to refer to APSB19-30 for updates pertaining to this vulnerability.
Patches:
The following are links for downloading patches to fix these vulnerabilities:
APSB19-30
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Adobe Security Update for ColdFusion (APSB19-27)
- Severity
- Critical 4
- Qualys ID
- 371836
- Vendor Reference
- APSB19-27
- CVE Reference
- CVE-2019-7838, CVE-2019-7839, CVE-2019-7840
- CVSS Scores
- Base 10 / Temporal 7.8
- Description
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Adobe ColdFusion is an application for developing Web sites. This security update fixes security bugs in Adobe ColdFusion.
Affected Versions:
Adobe ColdFusion (2016 Release) prior to Update 11
Adobe ColdFusion 11 prior to Update 19
QID Detection Logic (Authenticated):
This QID checks to see if Adobe ColdFusion and a .JAR file required to mitigate this update are installed. - Consequence
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An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise Confidentiality, Integrity and/or Availability.
- Solution
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Adobe has released fix to address this issue. Customers are advised to refer to APSB19-27 for updates pertaining to this vulnerability.
Patches:
The following are links for downloading patches to fix these vulnerabilities:
APSB19-27
These new vulnerability checks are included in Qualys vulnerability signature 2.4.625-3. Each Qualys account is automatically updated with the latest vulnerability signatures as they become available. To view the vulnerability signature version in your account, from the Qualys Help menu, select the About tab.
Selective Scan Instructions Using Qualys
To perform a selective vulnerability scan, configure a scan profile to use the following options:
- Ensure access to TCP ports 135 and 139 are available.
- Enable Windows Authentication (specify Authentication Records).
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Enable the following Qualys IDs:
- 371835
- 371836
- If you would like the scan to return the Windows Hostname, also include QID 82044 and ensure access to UDP port 137 is available.
- If you would like to be notified if Qualys is unable to log on to a host (if Authentication fails), also include QID 105015.
In addition, prior to running a scan for these new vulnerabilities, you can estimate your exposure to these new threats by running the Risk Analysis Report, available from the Qualys Vulnerability Management Reports tab.
Access for Qualys Customers
Platforms and Platform Identification
Technical Support
For more information, customers may contact Qualys Technical Support.
About Qualys
The Enterprise TruRisk Platform and its integrated suite of security and compliance applications provides organizations of all sizes with a global view of their security and compliance solutions, while drastically reducing their total cost of ownership. Qualys solutions include: continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, policy compliance, PCI compliance, security assessment questionnaire, web application scanning, web application firewall, malware detection and SECURE Seal for security testing of web sites.