CVE-2021-40790 (GCVE-0-2021-40790)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-07 12:54 – Updated: 2025-02-27 20:59
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Summary
Adobe Premiere Pro versions 22.0 (and earlier) and 15.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by an Use-After-Free vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Adobe Premiere Pro Affected: 0 , ≤ 15.4.2 (semver)
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