CVE-2022-38436: Adobe Illustrator

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Illustrator versions 26.4 (and earlier) and 25.4.7 (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 Illustrator: up to and including 25.4.7; from 26.0, up to and including 26.4

Published 2022-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.