CVE-2021-40779

HIGH

Adobe Media Encoder <15.4.1 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Adobe Media Encoder version 15.4.1 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0088
EPSS Percentile 75.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-788
Status published
Products (1)
adobe/media_encoder < 15.4.1
Published Mar 16, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026