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CVE-2021-43017Adobe Creative Cloud DLL Hijacking Local Application Denial of Service

Description

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

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By adobe

  2. · 24 days later

    Published

  3. · 3 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2021-43017, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
adobeCNA (assigner)3.1Medium4.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Medium4.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.2.

Affected products

  • Adobe · GoCart

    • affected unspecified – ≤ 5.5
    • affected unspecified – ≤ None

References

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