CVE-2022-24096: Adobe After Effects

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe After Effects versions 22.2 (and earlier) and 18.4.4 (and earlier) are affected by an Heap-based Buffer Overflow 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 file.

Affected products

• Adobe After Effects: from 18.0, before 18.4.5 (fixed in 18.4.5); from 22.0, before 22.2.1 (fixed in 22.2.1)

Published 2022-03-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.