CVE-2021-43757 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Adobe Media Encoder versions 22.0, 15.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read 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 3GP file

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00025.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Adobe Subscribe	Media Encoder Subscribe
Apple Subscribe	Macos Subscribe
Microsoft Subscribe	Windows Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

OR	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:media_encoder::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:media_encoder:22.0:::::::*

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:-:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-30664	Adobe Media Encoder versions 22.0, 15.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read 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 3GP file

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/media-encoder/apsb21-118.html

History

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published: 2023-07-12T11:17:45.211Z

Updated: 2025-03-05T18:53:42.406Z

Reserved: 2021-11-15T21:18:52.500Z

Link: CVE-2021-43757

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:03:08.804Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-12T12:15:09.330

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:29:43.693

Link: CVE-2021-43757

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-125

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