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CVE-2021-43019
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-11-23T19:15:08.047 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:10:21.640

Summary

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.

Affected products

adobe — creative_cloud_desktop_application

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