Adobe Premiere Pro Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

published 2021-08-20 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-22630

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.9%; EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits: 0; none known

Adobe Premiere Pro version 15.2 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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.

Patch / fix

links 1

helpx.adobe.com/security/products/premiere_pro/apsb21-56.html advisory

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-23)

Exploit prediction

3.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	9.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Adobe Premiere

Classification

Weakness

CWE-788 Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

helpx.adobe.com /security/products/premiere_pro/apsb21-56.html
patch, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-35997
NVD CVE-2021-35997

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Summary