CVE-2021-43018: Adobe Photoshop

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Photoshop versions 23.0.2 and 22.5.4 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in 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 JPG file.

Affected products

• Adobe Photoshop: from 22.0, before 22.5.4 (fixed in 22.5.4); from 23.0.0, before 23.0.2 (fixed in 23.0.2)

Published 2023-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.