CVE-2022-40655: Nikon Nis-Elements Viewer

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NIKON NIS-Elements Viewer 1.2100.1483.0. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of ND2 files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-15071.

Affected products

• Nikon Nis-Elements Viewer: version 1.2100.1483.0 only

Published 2022-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.