CVE-2021-40701: Adobe Premiere Elements

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Premiere Elements version 2021.2235820 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious m4a file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Adobe Premiere Elements: up to and including 2021.1

Published 2021-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.