CVE-2021-21051
Published: 11 February 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-21051 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 10.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-8442
Vulnerability details
Adobe Photoshop versions 21.2.4 (and earlier) and 22.1.1 (and earlier) are affected by a Buffer Overflow vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted javascript file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of…
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the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.