Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-36014 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability in Adobe Media Encoder

CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

MEDIUM

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

PARTIAL

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

network

adobe

CWE-824

NVD

Published: 2021-08-20

Updated: 2021-08-25

Summary

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. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Adobe Adobe Media Encoder 13.0.2 Adobe Media Encoder 13.1 Adobe Media Encoder 14.0 Adobe Media Encoder 14.0.2 Adobe Media Encoder 14.0.3 Adobe Media Encoder 14.2 Adobe Media Encoder 14.3 Adobe Media Encoder 14.3.1 Adobe Media Encoder 14.3.2 Adobe Media Encoder 14.4 Adobe Media Encoder 14.5 Adobe Media Encoder 14.8 Adobe Media Encoder 15.0 Adobe Media Encoder 15.2	14
OS	Microsoft Microsoft Windows -	1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/media-encoder/apsb21-43.html