Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-36054

Low

Published: 01 September 2021

Published
01 September 2021
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.5th percentile
Risk Priority 7 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-36054 is a low-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Adobe Xmp Toolkit Software Development Kit. Its CVSS base score is 3.3 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

XMP Toolkit SDK version 2020.1 (and earlier) is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability potentially resulting in local application denial of service in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a…

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crafted file.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

adobe
xmp toolkit software development kit
≤ 2020.1
debian
debian linux
10.0

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.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

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