CVE-2021-42721

7.8 highEPSS 3.7%

High (7.8) in adobe media encoder. EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Acrobat Bridge versions 11.1.1 and earlier are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Format event actions that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-416
Published: 2021-11-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

adobe:media_encoder

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/bridge/apsb21-94.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/bridge/apsb21-94.html

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