CVE-2021-21069

CVSS V2 High 9.3 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-21069
  • Assigner
  • psirt@adobe.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-03-12T19:15:13
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-09-08T17:23:02
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:creative_cloud_desktop_application:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 5.3
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 9.3
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-18.html Patch Vendor Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-281/ Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21069
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21069
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:06:41 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 23:42:00 2021-03-12T19:15Z 2021-03-12T19:15:13 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 23:42:00 2021-09-08T17:23:02 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 23:42:00 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated