CVE-2020-9670 is a critical symlink vulnerability affecting Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 5.1 and earlier on Windows. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a severe risk of privilege escalation through an unauthenticated, low-complexity network attack. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness within the security community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:creative_cloud_desktop_application:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.