CVE-2021-40771 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Prelude version 10.1 and earlier, affecting both Adobe and Microsoft Windows environments. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) can lead to arbitrary code execution if a user opens a specially crafted malicious WAV file. While user interaction is required, the potential impact includes high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code is unavailable, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 10.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:prelude:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.