CVE-2021-21069

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Mar 12, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-21069: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix