CVE-2021-35993
Adobe After Effects vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2021-35993 is a vulnerability affecting Adobe After Effects version 17.7.0. The vulnerability was discovered by Mat Powell (@mrpowell) and Joshua Smith (@kernelsmith) from Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (Adobe Security).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.0 score of 8.7, indicating a high severity level. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) and user interaction (UI:R). The scope is unchanged (S:U) with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H, I:H, A:H) (ManageEngine).

Impact

Based on the CVSS scoring, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system (ManageEngine).

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