CVE-2021-28547 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application for macOS version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a normal user to delete the OOBE directory and get permissions of any directory under the administrator authority.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00074.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Adobe Subscribe	Creative Cloud Desktop Application Subscribe
Apple Subscribe	Macos Subscribe
Microsoft Subscribe	Windows Subscribe

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	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-15223	Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application for macOS version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a normal user to delete the OOBE directory and get permissions of any directory under the administrator authority.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-18.html

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published: 2021-09-29T15:45:48.968Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T19:25:36.174Z

Reserved: 2021-03-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-28547

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T21:47:32.609Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-29T16:15:07.800

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:59:49.467

Link: CVE-2021-28547

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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