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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-36053

XMP Toolkit SDK versions 2020.1 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of arbitrary memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:09 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-36053

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Sept 2021, 15:15 UTC

XMP Toolkit SDK versions 2020.1 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of arbitrary memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

osv:CVE-2021-36053
Complete source record
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