CVE-2021-40781: Adobe Media Encoder 15.4.1 (and earlier) is affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated…

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.31%

67.3th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	media_encoder	<= 15.4.1	—
adobe	media_encoder	unspecified – 15.4.1	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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