Medium severity · published Jun 28, 2021
CVE-2021-28597
Adobe Photoshop Elements version 5.2 (and earlier) is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability
5.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PE
Photoshop Elements · Adobe
before 5.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28597
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28597
Vendor Advisory
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/photoshop_elements/apsb21-46.html
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