CVE-2021-21069: Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to…

PriorityP341high7.8CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.47%

82.6th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	creative_cloud	unspecified – 5.3.1.470a	—
adobe	creative_cloud_desktop_application	<= 5.3	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.09.3CRITICALAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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