CVE-2016-4165 describes a critical vulnerability in the extension manager of Adobe Brackets versions prior to 1.7, allowing attackers to achieve an unspecified but severe impact through invalid input. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a SecurityWeek article, though it is not listed on CISA's KEV catalog as actively exploited.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:brackets:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.