Headline

CVE-2021-40776: Adobe Security Bulletin

Adobe Lightroom Classic 10.3 (and earlier) are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Offline Lightroom Classic installer. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges. User interaction is required before product installation to abuse this vulnerability.

2 years ago

CVE

Open in Source

#vulnerability #mac #windows #auth

Security Updates Available for Adobe Lightroom Classic | APSB21-97

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

ASPB21-97

October 26, 20201

Summary

Adobe has released updates for Adobe Lightroom Classic for Windows and macOS. This update addresses a critical vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Lightroom Classic

10.3 and earlier versions

Windows

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app’s update mechanism. For more information, please reference this help page.

Product

Version

Platform

Priority Rating

Availability

Lightroom Classic

Lightroom Classic v10.4 and v11.0

Windows and macOS

Download Center

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVE Numbers

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions (CWE-379)

Privilege escalation

Critical

CVE-2021-40776

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank CQY of Topsec Alpha Team (yjdfy)  for reporting this issue and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers.