CVE-2021-43019

Adobe Creative Cloud Incorrect Permission Assignment Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Nov 23, 2021
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Oct 25, 2021

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Description

Adobe Creative Cloud version 5.5 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the resources leveraged by the Setup.exe service. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to remove files and escalate privileges under the context of SYSTEM . An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability on the product installer. User interaction is required before product installation to abuse this vulnerability.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732)

Affected Products

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

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