CVE-2021-40702

7.8 highEPSS 1.7%

High (7.8) in adobe premiere elements. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Premiere Elements version 2021.2235820 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious psd file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-119, CWE-788
Published: 2021-09-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

adobe:premiere_elements

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/premiere_elements/apsb21-78.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/premiere_elements/apsb21-78.html

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