CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-40716
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
XMP Toolkit SDK versions 2021.07 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Affected configurations
• adobe xmp toolkit software development kit (<= 2021.07)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/xmpcore/apsb21-85.html Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/xmpcore/apsb21-85.html Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00003.html lists.debian.org