Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40732

Medium

Published: 13 October 2021

Published
13 October 2021
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.3th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40732 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Adobe Xmp Toolkit Software Development Kit. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 35.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

XMP Toolkit version 2020.1 (and earlier) is affected by a null pointer dereference vulnerability that could result in leaking data from certain memory locations and causing a local denial of service in the context of the current user. User interaction…

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is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the victim will need to open a specially crafted MXF file.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

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

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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