CVE-2021-43019

HIGH

Adobe Creative Cloud <5.5 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 67.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (1)
adobe/creative_cloud_desktop_application < 5.5
Published Nov 23, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026