CVE-2021-42528: Adobe Xmp Toolkit Software Development Kit

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Published 2022-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.