CVE-2021-21070

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Adobe RoboHelp

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Apr 19, 2021
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Dec 18, 2020

Description

Adobe Robohelp version 2020.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation. An attacker with admin permissions to write to the file system could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
RoboHelpAdobe	2020.0.3 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/robohelp/apsb21-20.html

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