Adobe Premiere Elements m4a Memory Corruption Vulnerability Could Lead to Arbitrary Code Execution (Adobe Not a product)

CVE-2021-40703
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.70 % · percentile 77 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
adobe
NVD status
Modified

Description

Adobe Premiere Elements version 2021.2235820 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious m4a file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-788 — Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Adobe · Not a productaffected unspecified ≤ 2021.2235820 ; affected unspecified ≤ None

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD