CVE-2021-40788: Adobe Premiere Elements

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Premiere Elements 20210809.daily.2242976 (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 Premiere Elements: before 2021.4 (fixed in 2021.4)

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