CVE-2021-40697· NVD / CVE Program· CNA adobe

Adobe FrameMaker PDF File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 13/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.5% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 73.6% of all records.
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Adobe Framemaker versions 2019 Update 8 (and earlier) and 2020 Release Update 2 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive 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.

LowCVSS 3.3 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded

Memory safety

BDU:2022-02705

Published: Sep 29, 2021
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 1.5% · 74th percentile
CWE: CWE-125

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 13 / 40 · 3.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 1.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · adobe: 3.3; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
adobe	framemaker	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:framemaker

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

adobe framemakerup to 2019.0.8 inclusive
adobe framemaker2020.0.1 and later · up to 2020.0.2 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (adobe). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Adobe FrameMaker
- unspecified and later · up to and including 2020.2affected
- unspecified and later · up to and including 2019.8affected
- unspecified and later · up to and including Noneaffected

Same product

adobe: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-3740Adobe Framemaker versions 2019.0.4 and below have a memory corruption vulnerability.
41Plan
CVE-2021-21056Adobe FrameMaker Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability Could Lead To Remote Code Execution
38Monitor
CVE-2020-3735Adobe Framemaker versions 2019.0.4 and below have a heap overflow vulnerability.
37Monitor
CVE-2020-3731Adobe Framemaker versions 2019.0.4 and below have a heap overflow vulnerability.
37Monitor
CVE-2020-9636Adobe Framemaker versions 2019.0.5 and below have a memory corruption vulnerability.
36Monitor
CVE-2020-9635Adobe Framemaker versions 2019.0.5 and below have an out-of-bounds write vulnerability.
36Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).