CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-43017

4.2 MEDIUM Published 2021-11-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-379

Description

Adobe Creative Cloud version 5.5 (and earlier) are affected by an Application denial of service vulnerability in the Creative Cloud Desktop installer. An authenticated attacker with root privileges could leverage this vulnerability to achieve denial of service by planting a malicious file on the victim's local machine. User interaction is required before product installation to abuse this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• adobe creative cloud desktop application (<= 5.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References