CVE-2021-28547

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in adobe creative cloud desktop application. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application for macOS version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a normal user to delete the OOBE directory and get permissions of any directory under the administrator authority.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2021-09-29
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

adobe:creative_cloud_desktop_application

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-18.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb21-18.html

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