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CVE-2021-43019

Published: Nov 23, 2021

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.8

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Adobe

Creative Cloud (desktop component)

affected
unspecified - <= 5.5
affected
unspecified - <= None

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-732

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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