CVE-2021-44188 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Adobe After Effects versions 22.0 (and earlier) and 18.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0022.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Adobe	After Effects
Apple	Macos
Microsoft	Windows

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

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	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:after_effects::::::::

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:-:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-31038	Adobe After Effects versions 22.0 (and earlier) and 18.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/after_effects/apsb21-115.html

History

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published: 2023-09-07T12:54:35.641Z

Updated: 2025-02-27T20:59:54.540Z

Reserved: 2021-11-23T17:07:03.826Z

Link: CVE-2021-44188

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:17:23.594Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-07T13:15:08.317

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:30:31.810

Link: CVE-2021-44188

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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