CVE-2021-28581

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop uncontrolled search path element vulnerability could lead to local privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Sep 8, 2021
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Mar 16, 2021

Description

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop 3.5 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that could result in elevation of privileges. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must log on to the attacker's local machine.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.3 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	adobe

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Creative Cloud (desktop component)Adobe	5.3 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-31.html

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