CVE-2021-42738: Adobe Prelude

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Prelude version 10.1 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious MXF file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required in that the victim must open a specially crafted file to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Adobe Prelude: up to and including 10.1

Published 2021-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.