CVE-2021-43017
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-18 18:35
Modified
2024-09-16 18:39
Severity ?
4.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
psirt@adobe.comhttps://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-111.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-111.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
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