CVE-2021-44188: Adobe After Effects

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

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.

Affected products

• Adobe After Effects: up to and including 18.4.2; from 22.0, before 22.1.1 (fixed in 22.1.1)

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