CVE-2021-42528: XMP Toolkit 2021.07 (and earlier) is affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker…

PriorityP422medium5.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.82%

76.3th percentile

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

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	xmp_toolkit	unspecified – 2021.07	—
adobe	xmp_toolkit_software_development_kit	<= 2021.07	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	exempi	< exempi 2.6.0-1 (bookworm)	exempi 2.6.0-1 (bookworm)
exempi_project	exempi	>= 0 < 2.5.2-1+deb11u1	2.5.2-1+deb11u1
exempi_project	exempi	>= 0 < 2.6.0-1	2.6.0-1
exempi_project	exempi	>= 0 < 2.6.0-1	2.6.0-1
exempi_project	exempi	>= 0 < 2.6.0-1	2.6.0-1

CVSS provenance

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

nvdv2.07.1HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

osv5.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM

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