Adobe Premiere Pro 2021 SVG File Parsing Leads to Memory Corruption

published 2021-09-29 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-27876

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.1%; EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits: 0; none known

Adobe Premiere Pro version 15.4 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious .svg file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required in that the victim must open a specially crafted file to exploit this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

links 1

helpx.adobe.com/security/products/premiere_pro/apsb21-67.html advisory

Exploit prediction

2.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/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-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

helpx.adobe.com /security/products/premiere_pro/apsb21-67.html
patch, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-40710
NVD CVE-2021-40710

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Summary