Described is a cyanacrylate adhesive containing as plasticizer at least one partial and/or full ester of aliphatic mono- or polycarboxylic acids with 1 to 5 C-atoms bound directly to each other and aliphatic mono- to pentahydric alcohols with 1 to 5 C-atoms bound directly to each other, the number of C-atoms bound directly to each other in the other aliphatic groups being at the most three when one aliphatic group contains 4 or 5 C-atoms. Even at high plasticizer concentrations, the shelf life is good. This adhesive is a pressure sensitive adhesive. The addition of up to about 20 % of plasticizer causes hardly any increase in the setting time.
