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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-29973 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.
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History

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

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-23T19:18:45.457Z

Reserved: 2021-10-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-43019

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:47:13.208Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-23T19:15:08.047

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:28:31.850

Link: CVE-2021-43019

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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