CVE-2021-43019: Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Creative Cloud version 5.5 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the resources leveraged by the Setup.exe service. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to remove files and escalate privileges under the context of SYSTEM . An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability on the product installer. User interaction is required before product installation to abuse this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application: up to and including 5.5

Published 2021-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.