Is CVE-2021-42526 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2021-42526 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2021-42526?

CVE-2021-42526 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2021-42526?

CVE-2021-42526 has an EPSS score of 1.51% (71th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2021-42526?

Upgrade premiere elements to 2021.4 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2021-42526

HIGHEPSS 71th pctl

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Adobe Premiere Elements 20210809.daily.2242976 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability.

CWE-788 CWE-119Buffer Overflow

How to fix

Remediation Available

premiere elementsNVD

Affected:< 2021.4Fixed in:2021.4CVE-2021-42526derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.51%probability of exploitation in 30 days

71stpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 71% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

helpx.adobe.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.