CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-40776

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

Published: Jun 15, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.1
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product creates a temporary file in a directory whose permissions allow unintended actors to determine the file’s existence or otherwise access that file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Lightroom Adobe * 10.4 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References