CVE-2022-38430: Adobe Photoshop

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Photoshop versions 22.5.8 (and earlier) and 23.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a crafted file, 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 Photoshop: from 22.0, up to and including 22.5.8; from 23.0, up to and including 23.4.2

Published 2022-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.