CVE-2021-43019

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductAdobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application
PublishedNov 23, 2021
First seenNov 23, 2021
Weakness typeCWE-732CWE-732

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
adobe creative_cloud_desktop_applicationv ≤ 5.5—

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