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
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-111.html
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