CVE-2021-40716: Adobe Xmp Toolkit Software Development Kit

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

XMP Toolkit SDK versions 2021.07 (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 Xmp Toolkit Software Development Kit: up to and including 2021.07
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only

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