CVE-2021-43019

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 Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-111.html

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-111.html

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