CVE-2021-43019Incorrect Permission Assignment in Adobe Creative Cloud

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 23
Latest updateNov 24

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5adobe/creative_cloudunspecified5.5+1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wxwj-m72v-qhcr: Adobe Creative Cloud version 52021-11-24
CVEList
Adobe Creative Cloud Incorrect Permission Assignment Privilege Escalation Vulnerability2021-11-23
CVE-2021-43019 — Incorrect Permission Assignment | cvebase