CVE-2021-43017

Adobe Creative Cloud DLL Hijacking Local Application Denial of Service

State: Published
Severity: 4.2 Medium
Published: Nov 18, 2021
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Oct 25, 2021

Description

Adobe Creative Cloud version 5.5 (and earlier) are affected by an Application denial of service vulnerability in the Creative Cloud Desktop installer. An authenticated attacker with root privileges could leverage this vulnerability to achieve denial of service by planting a malicious file on the victim's local machine. User interaction is required before product installation to abuse this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.2 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	adobe

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GoCartAdobe	5.5 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-111.html

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