CVE-2021-21069: Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Affected products

• Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application: up to and including 5.3

Published 2021-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.