CVE-2021-28597

Adobe Photoshop Elements Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - symbolic link

State: Published
Severity: 6.2 Medium
Published: Jun 28, 2021
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Mar 16, 2021

Description

Adobe Photoshop Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability 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	6.2 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions (CWE-379)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Photoshop ElementsAdobe	5.2 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/photoshop_elements/apsb21-46.html

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