DreamweaverApplication · Adobe

CVE-2019-7097

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS v3.0 Published 2019-05-23
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to after 19.0 or later.
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84/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Adobe Dreamweaver versions 19.0 and earlier have an insecure protocol implementation vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to sensitive data disclosure if smb request is subject to a relay attack.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · moderate confidence

Adobe Dreamweaver versions 19.0 and earlier contain an insecure SMB protocol implementation that fails to properly protect SMB authentication requests from relay attacks. When Dreamweaver makes SMB requests, the lack of appropriate protections (such as SMB signing or channel binding) allows an attacker to intercept and relay authentication credentials to access sensitive data.

MitigationImplement SMB signing enforcement and extended protection for NTLM authentication in Dreamweaver's SMB client implementation to prevent relay attacks. Organizations should also enable SMB signing on their network infrastructure to protect against credential relay.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
DreamweaverApplication
Affected:<= 19.0

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Confirm Dreamweaver installation
    Check if Adobe Dreamweaver is installed on the system. On Windows, look in Program Files or check the registry under HKLM\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver. On macOS, check /Applications/ for Dreamweaver.app.
    Affected if Dreamweaver is not installed - not affected.
  2. Determine installed Dreamweaver version
    Open Dreamweaver and go to Help > About Adobe Dreamweaver, or check the version in the application metadata. Compare the version number to the affected range of 19.0 and earlier.
    Affected if Version is 19.0 or earlier - potentially affected.
  3. Identify SMB usage in Dreamweaver
    Review Dreamweaver site definitions and server connections. Check if any defined servers use SMB/CIFS protocol (often indicated by UNC paths like \\server\share or smb:// prefixes in site settings).
    Affected if SMB-based remote server connections are configured in Dreamweaver - vulnerable to relay attacks.
  4. Verify SMB client protection status
    Since the vulnerability is in Dreamweaver's SMB client implementation lacking SMB signing and channel binding, inspect any network traffic when Dreamweaver connects to SMB servers to confirm whether authentication is being signed.
    Affected if SMB connections from Dreamweaver do not use signing or channel binding - actively vulnerable.

A user is affected if Dreamweaver version 19.0 or earlier is installed AND SMB functionality (remote file access via SMB) is used, allowing credentials to be relayable due to missing SMB signing protections in Dreamweaver's client.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

From vendor data
Upgrade available Upgrade to a release after 19.0
Interim mitigation

Implement SMB signing enforcement and extended protection for NTLM authentication in Dreamweaver's SMB client implementation to prevent relay attacks. Organizations should also enable SMB signing on their network infrastructure to protect against credential relay.

Fix this in Dreamweaver Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation4.0 h
  • Implementation16.0 h
  • Testing8.0 h
  • Review / QA4.0 h
32.0 hours of engineering $5,600
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