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CVE-2021-40702

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-40702 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Premiere Elements 2021.2235820 and earlier, affecting both Windows and macOS versions. This flaw, triggered by insecure handling of a malicious PSD file, could lead to arbitrary code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While user interaction is required for exploitation, its CVSS score of 7.8 (High) indicates a significant risk. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2021.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:premiere_elements:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2021.2235820CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:premiere:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/premiere_elements/apsb21-78.html
PatchVendor Advisory