Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40767

Medium

Published: 16 March 2022

Published
16 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0061 70.1th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40767 is a medium-severity Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer (CWE-788) vulnerability in Adobe Character Animator. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 29.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Adobe Character Animator version 4.4 (and earlier) is affected by an Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the…

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context of 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

adobe
character animator
≤ 4.4

Mitigating Controls

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

References