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Status published
High
CVE-2021-21069
Adobe Creative Cloud Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
Adobe
View all reports →Affected Software
Creative Cloud (desktop component)
Vulnerable Versions:
unspecified
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 12th, 2021
Last Modified:
April 23rd, 2025
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H