CVE-2025-21162
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.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 5.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.31%
- CWE
- CWE-379
- Published
- 2025-02-11
- Last modified
- 2026-03-12
Affected products
- Adobe Photoshop Elements
Weakness type
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