CVE-2021-36014
Published: 20 August 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-36014 is a low-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Adobe Media Encoder. Its CVSS base score is 3.3 (Low).
Operationally, ranked in the top 28.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-22647
Vulnerability details
Adobe Media Encoder version 15.2 (and earlier) is affected by an uninitialized pointer vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to read arbitrary file system information in the context of the current user.…
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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.
Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.
Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.
Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.
Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.