CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-42528
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-05-02
- 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:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
XMP Toolkit 2021.07 (and earlier) is affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. 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-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/xmpcore/apsb21-108.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/apsb21-108.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