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.
Published: 2021-11-18
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 1.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-27917 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.
History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Adobe After Effects
Microsoft Windows
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-23T19:22:03.692Z

Reserved: 2021-09-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-40752

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T02:51:06.441Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-18T17:15:09.703

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:24:42.197

Link: CVE-2021-40752

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