CVE-2021-21069 Adobe Creative Cloud Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

2021-03-0900:00:00

CWE-20

adobe

www.cve.org

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

38.1%

JSON

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Creative Cloud (desktop component)",
    "vendor": "Adobe",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.3.1.470a",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "None",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]