CVE-2021-21069 (GCVE-0-2021-21069)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-12 18:11
Modified
2025-04-23 19:44
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation ()
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.
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Adobe | Creative Cloud (desktop component) |
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