CVE-2019-7972 is a critical type confusion vulnerability affecting Adobe Photoshop CC versions 19.1.8 and earlier, and 20.0.5 and earlier, across Windows and macOS platforms. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating it can be exploited remotely without user interaction (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H), leading to arbitrary code execution. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 11 mentions, and was covered by BleepingComputer, suggesting awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 19.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:photoshop_cc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 20.0, <= 20.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:photoshop_cc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.