CVE-2021-40778: Adobe Media Encoder

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Media Encoder 15.4.1 (and earlier) is affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

• Adobe Media Encoder: up to and including 15.4.1

Published 2022-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.