Vulnerability · Published Apr 19, 2021 · Assigned by adobe

CVE-2021-21070Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Adobe RoboHelp

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled search path in RoboHelp from Adobe. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 76% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Adobe Robohelp version 2020.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation. An attacker with admin permissions to write to the file system could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Adobe	RoboHelp	unspecified – through 2020.0.3unspecified – through None

Weakness: CWE-427 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/robohelp/apsb21-20.html x_refsource_MISC