Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-21011

High

Published: 13 January 2021

Published
13 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0066 71.4th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-21011 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Adobe Captivate. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 28.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Adobe Captivate 2019 version 11.5.1.499 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation. An attacker with permissions to write to the file system could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

adobe
captivate
≤ 11.5.1.499

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References