CVE-2021-28597: Adobe Photoshop Elements

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Photoshop Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Affected products

• Adobe Photoshop Elements: before 5.3 (fixed in 5.3)

Published 2021-06-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.