CVE-2021-28571: Adobe After Effects

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe After Effects version 18.1 (and earlier) is affected by a potential Command injection vulnerability when chained with a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

• Adobe After Effects: up to and including 18.1

Published 2021-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.