CVE-2023-38210 Other | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)

Medium 5.5 Published 10 Aug 2023 Updated 27 Feb 2025

An attacker can cause a denial of service in applications using Adobe XMP Toolkit by tricking a user into opening a malicious file.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2023-38210?

CVE-2023-38210 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe XMP Toolkit, published on 10 Aug 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Adobe XMP Toolkit versions 2022.06 is affected by a Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability. 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.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38210?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Xmp Toolkit Software Development Kit.

How do I fix CVE-2023-38210?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-38210 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-38210 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38210 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-ff3w-9cgh-8h6x.