CVE-2021-40751Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer in Adobe After Effects

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.8%
top 17.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 18
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Adobe After Effects version 18.4 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious .m4a file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required in that the victim must open a specially crafted file to exploit this vulnerability.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5adobe/after_effectsunspecified18.4.1+1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wpr8-fjvq-9g34: Adobe After Effects version 182022-05-24
CVEList
Adobe After Effects M4A File Parsing Memory Corruption Arbitrary Code Execution2021-11-18
CVE-2021-40751 — Adobe After Effects vulnerability | cvebase