CVE-2021-21069
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-12 18:11
Modified
2024-09-16 23:52
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.
References
psirt@adobe.comhttps://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-18.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
psirt@adobe.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-281/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-18.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-281/Third Party Advisory
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