CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-21100

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-04-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-04-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-379

Description

Adobe Digital Editions version 4.5.11.187245 (and earlier) is affected by a Privilege Escalation vulnerability during installation. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary file system write in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected configurations

• adobe digital editions (<= 4.5.11.187245)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions weakness

References