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CVE-2021-40786

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-40786 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Premiere Elements 20210809.daily.2242976 and earlier versions, affecting both Windows and macOS platforms. This flaw, rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8, can lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user if a malicious file is opened. Exploitation requires user interaction, but the attack complexity is low. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2021.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:premiere_elements:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 20210809.daily.2242976CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:premiere_elements:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0159 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 11,616 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

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/premiere_elements/apsb21-106.html
Vendor Advisory