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Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop < 5.4.3 Privilege Escalation (APSB21-31)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149449

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Synopsis

An application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop installed on the remote Windows host is prior to version 5.4.3. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability due to an uncontrolled search path element.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop version 5.4.3.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4065508b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149449

File Name: adobe_creative_cloud_apsb21-31.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 5/13/2021

Updated: 9/20/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28581

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:creative_cloud

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Adobe Creative Cloud

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28581

IAVA: 2021-A-0232-S