{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-40709 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-40709 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-40709 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop, published on 27 Sep 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-40709 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-40709 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop, published on 27 Sep 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-40709 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Adobe Photoshop. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40709/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40709/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-40709","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40709/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-40709","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-h7p5-p6wf-m64f"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Adobe Photoshop","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious SVG file in Adobe Photoshop.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"adobe","cpe":[{"product":"photoshop_2020","vendor":"adobe"},{"product":"photoshop_2021","vendor":"adobe"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-120","name":"Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input"}],"description":"Adobe Photoshop versions 21.2.11 (and earlier) and 22.5 (and earlier) are affected by a Buffer Overflow vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted SVG file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Adobe Photoshop Buffer Overflow leads to Arbitrary Code Execution","id":"CVE-2021-40709","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Adobe Premiere Pro 2021 SVG File Parsing Leads to Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2021-40710"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Adobe Genuine Service Installer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2021-40708"},"products":["Photoshop"],"published":"2021-09-27","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Adobe Photoshop","id":"CVE-2020-3775","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Adobe Photoshop","id":"CVE-2020-3783","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Adobe Photoshop","id":"CVE-2020-3784","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Adobe Photoshop","id":"CVE-2020-3785","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Adobe Photoshop","id":"CVE-2020-3786","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Adobe Photoshop","id":"CVE-2020-3787","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Adobe Photoshop","id":"CVE-2020-3788","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-25"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-04-23","vendors":["Adobe"]},"summary":"An attacker can execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious SVG file in Adobe Photoshop.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40709/"}