CVE-2021-28581

CVSS V2 Medium 4.4 CVSS V3 High 7.3

Description

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop 3.5 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that could result in elevation of privileges. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must log on to the attacker's local machine.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2021-28581

Assigner
psirt@adobe.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2021-09-08T14:15:08

Last Modified Date
2021-09-14T14:35:39

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-427	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/427.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version End
		AND
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:creative_cloud::::::::	1	OR	5.3
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:::::::*	0	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.4

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
3.4

Impact Score
6.4

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
HIGH

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7.3

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
1.3

Impact Score
5.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-31.html	Vendor Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28581
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28581

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 16:05:32				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 09:51:28	2021-09-08T14:15Z	2021-09-08T14:15:08	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-05 09:51:28		2021-09-14T14:35:39	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-05 09:51:28		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated