CVE-2021-28547

Adobe Creative Cloud for macOS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 29, 2021
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Mar 16, 2021

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Description

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application for macOS version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a normal user to delete the OOBE directory and get permissions of any directory under the administrator authority.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.07.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Creative Cloud (desktop component)Adobe
  • 5.3 and earlierAffected
  • None and earlierAffected

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