Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-43017

Medium

Published: 18 November 2021

Published
18 November 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.8th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-43017 is a medium-severity Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions (CWE-379) vulnerability in Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application. Its CVSS base score is 4.2 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Adobe Creative Cloud version 5.5 (and earlier) are affected by an Application denial of service vulnerability in the Creative Cloud Desktop installer. An authenticated attacker with root privileges could leverage this vulnerability to achieve denial of service by planting a…

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malicious file on the victim's local machine. User interaction is required before product installation to abuse this vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-379NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

adobe
creative cloud desktop application
≤ 5.5

Mitigating Controls

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

References