CVE-2021-21069
Adobe Creative Cloud Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Mar 12, 2021
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Reserved
- Dec 18, 2020
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | adobe |
Weaknesses
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Creative Cloud (desktop component)Adobe |
|
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