CVE-2005-4708: Adobe Captivate

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Macromedia MX 2004 products, Captivate, Contribute 2, Contribute 3, and eLicensing client install the Macromedia Licensing Service with the Users group permitted to configure the service, including the path to executable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code as Local System.

Affected products

• Adobe Captivate: any version
• Adobe Contribute: version 2 only; version 3 only
• Adobe Director: any version
• Adobe Dreamweaver: version 9.0 only
• Adobe Elicensing: any version
• Adobe Fireworks: version 9.0 only
• Adobe Flash Player: any version
• Adobe Freehand: version mx only
• Adobe Studio: version mx only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.