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CVE-2021-43019

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2021-11-23 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 Platforms

Apple MacosAdobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application

Weakness Type

CWE-732, CWE-732

References