CVE-2020-24422: Adobe Creative Cloud

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.2 (and earlier) and 2.1 (and earlier) for Windows is affected by an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

• Adobe Creative Cloud: up to and including 2.1; from 5.0, up to and including 5.2

Published 2020-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.