CVE-2026-34642
HighCVSS 7.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs
Summary
After Effects versions 26.0, 25.6.4 and earlier are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Risk Assessment
This vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to the system and execution of malicious code, posing a serious security threat to the organization.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update After Effects to the latest version to mitigate the risk associated with this vulnerability. Additionally, users should be educated about opening files from unknown sources.
Other vulnerabilities in After Effects
See all- CVE-2026-34644High
After Effects versions 26.0, 25.6.4 and earlier are affected by an Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
- CVE-2026-34643High
After Effects versions 26.0, 25.6.4 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
- CVE-2026-21350Medium
After Effects versions 25.6 and earlier are affected by a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application, causing disruption to services. Exploitation requires user interaction – the victim must open a malicious file.
Original NVD description (English source)
After Effects versions 26.0, 25.6.4 and earlier are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.