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medium 4.0

CVE-2021-36057 json

XMP Toolkit SDK Write-What-Where Condition Could Lead To Local Application Denial Of Service

published 2021-09-01 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-22690

cvss
4.0
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XMP Toolkit SDK version 2020.1 (and earlier) is affected by a write-what-where condition vulnerability caused during the application's memory allocation process. This may cause the memory management functions to become mismatched resulting in local application denial of service in the context of the current user.

Patch / fix

  • exempi Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-36057

  • exempi Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.4.5-2ubuntu0.1
  • exempi Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.5.1-1ubuntu0.1
  • exempi Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-36057

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

0.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 4.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CNA 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Adobe XMP Toolkit

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-123 Write-what-where Condition

References

Sources

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