CVE-2021-28623 Adobe Premiere Elements Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit insecure temporary file creation to perform high-privileged actions via the installer.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-28623?
CVE-2021-28623 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Premiere, published on 28 Jun 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Adobe Premiere 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-28623?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Adobe Premiere Elements.
How do I fix CVE-2021-28623?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-28623 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-28623 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-28623 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Premiere
- CVE-2022-34235 Adobe Premiere Elements Uncontrolled Search Path Element Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2021-40786 Adobe Premiere Elements M4A file memory corruption vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution
- CVE-2021-40787 Adobe Premiere Elements M4A file memory corruption vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution
- CVE-2021-42526 Adobe Premiere Elements WAV file memory corruption vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution
- CVE-2021-42527 Adobe Premiere Elements PSD file memory corruption vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c86x-vfvf-3hm7.