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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2021-40716 json

XMP Toolkit SDK SVG_Adapter Out-of-bounds Read Information Disclosure

published 2021-09-29 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-27882

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XMP Toolkit SDK versions 2021.07 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40716

  • 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-2021-40716

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

2.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Adobe XMP Toolkit

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.