CVE-2021-40778

MEDIUM

Adobe Media Encoder < 15.4.1 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Crafted File Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Adobe Media Encoder 15.4.1 (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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0131
EPSS Percentile 67.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
adobe/media_encoder < 15.4.1
Published Mar 16, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026