CVE-2025-21162 Photoshop Elements | Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions (CWE-379)

What is CVE-2025-21162?

CVE-2025-21162 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop Elements, published on 11 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Photoshop Elements versions 2025.0 and earlier are affected by a Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Weakness: CWE-379

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-21162?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Photoshop Elements.

How do I fix CVE-2025-21162?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-21162 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-21162 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21162 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop Elements

• CVE-2011-2443 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2021-39825 Adobe Photoshop Elements Edit 2021 TTF Font Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability High 7.8
• CVE-2009-3489 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2021-28597 Adobe Photoshop Elements Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - symbolic link Medium 6.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xm77-xqp2-qhcp.