CVE-2021-43755 (GCVE-0-2021-43755)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-15 19:50 – Updated: 2025-04-23 18:12
VLAI
Title
Adobe After Effects Memory Corruption could lead to Arbitrary Code Execution
Summary
Adobe After Effects versions 22.0 (and earlier) and 18.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Write 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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Adobe After Effects Affected: 0 , ≤ 18.4.2 (semver)
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Date Public
2021-12-14 17:00
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