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By the Year
In 2025 there have been 1 vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop Elements with an average score of 5.5 out of ten. Photoshop Elements did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year. That is, 1 more vulnerability have already been reported in 2025 as compared to last year.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 5.50 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2021 | 1 | 7.80 |
It may take a day or so for new Photoshop Elements vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilities. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.
Recent Adobe Photoshop Elements Security Vulnerabilities
Photoshop Elements 2025.0: Temp File Permission Escalation via Malicious File
CVE-2025-21162
5.5 - Medium
- February 11, 2025
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.
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions
Photoshop Elements versions 2021 build 19.0 (20210304.m.156367) (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability
CVE-2021-39825
7.8 - High
- September 27, 2021
Photoshop Elements versions 2021 build 19.0 (20210304.m.156367) (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious TTF file.
Memory Corruption
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 installs the Adobe Active File Monitor V8 service with an insecure security descriptor, which
CVE-2009-3489
7.8 - High
- September 30, 2009
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 installs the Adobe Active File Monitor V8 service with an insecure security descriptor, which allows local users to (1) stop the service via the stop command, (2) execute arbitrary commands as SYSTEM by using the config command to modify the binPath variable, or (3) restart the service via the start command.
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
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