CVE-2021-40697: Adobe Framemaker

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Framemaker versions 2019 Update 8 (and earlier) and 2020 Release Update 2 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

• Adobe Framemaker: up to and including 2019.0.8; from 2020.0.1, up to and including 2020.0.2

Published 2021-09-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.