High severity · published Sep 8, 2021
CVE-2021-28581
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop 3.5 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that could result in elevation of privileges
7.3
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CC
Creative Cloud · Adobe
through 5.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28581
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28581
Vendor Advisory
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-31.html
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