CVE-2021-21069: high-severity vulnerability in Adobe Creative Cloud (desktop component)
Adobe Creative Cloud Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 2.6%
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Adobe · Creative Cloud (desktop component)Related CVEs — Adobe Creative Cloud (desktop component)
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CVE-2020-24422HIGHUncontrolled Search Path in Creative Cloud Desktop ApplicationEPSS 3.1%CVE-2022-23202HIGHAdobe Creative Cloud Desktop Uncontrolled Search Path Element Arbitrary code executionEPSS 2.2%CVE-2021-43019HIGHAdobe Creative Cloud Incorrect Permission Assignment Privilege Escalation VulnerabilityEPSS 2.2%CVE-2021-21078MEDIUMAdobe Creative Cloud Unquoted Service Path in CCXProcessEPSS 1.1%CVE-2021-28581HIGHAdobe Creative Cloud Desktop uncontrolled search path element vulnerability could lead to local privilege escalationEPSS 0.9%CVE-2021-21068MEDIUMAdobe Creative Cloud installer arbitrary file overwrite vulnerabilityEPSS 0.6%