CVE-2021-36060 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Adobe Media Encoder version 15.2 (and earlier) is 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Adobe	Media Encoder
Microsoft	Windows

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:media_encoder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/media-encoder/apsb21-43.html

History

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published: 2023-09-06T13:08:08.104Z

Updated: 2025-02-27T21:00:57.023Z

Reserved: 2021-06-30T18:34:04.874Z

Link: CVE-2021-36060

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:47:43.773Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-06T14:15:09.283

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:13:03.553

Link: CVE-2021-36060

Redhat

No data.

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