CVE-2022-27783 Adobe After Effects Stack Buffer Overflow Could Lead To RCE

What is CVE-2022-27783?

CVE-2022-27783 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe After Effects, published on 6 May 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Adobe After Effects versions 22.2.1 (and earlier) and 18.4.5 (and earlier) are affected by a stack overflow vulnerability due to insecure handling of a crafted file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted file in After Effects.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-121

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-27783?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe After Effects.

How do I fix CVE-2022-27783?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-27783 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-27783 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-27783 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe After Effects

• CVE-2020-3765 Memory corruption in Adobe After Effects Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-28586 Adobe After Effects PDF file parsing out-of-bounds write could lead to remote code execution vulnerability High 8.8
• CVE-2021-28571 Adobe After Effects improper neutralization of special elements could lead to remote code execution High 8.3
• CVE-2021-28570 Adobe After Effects uncontrolled search path element vulnerability could lead to remote code execution High 8.3
• CVE-2026-48274 After Effects | Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) High 7.8

All Adobe After Effects vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rxg2-5cmw-p38c.