CVE-2021-21069 HIGH

CVE-2021-21069: Adobe Creative Cloud Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vendor Adobe
Product Creative Cloud (desktop component)
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published March 12, 2021
Last update April 23, 2025
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CVSS base score

7.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 12, 2021 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated