CVE-2025-27184
📋 TL;DR
CVE-2025-27184 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Adobe After Effects that could allow an attacker to read sensitive memory contents. This could potentially bypass security mitigations like ASLR. Users who open malicious After Effects project files are affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- Adobe After Effects
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
An attacker could read sensitive memory contents, potentially obtaining credentials, encryption keys, or other protected data, and bypass ASLR to enable further exploitation.
Likely Case
Information disclosure of memory contents, potentially revealing application data or system information that could aid in developing further attacks.
If Mitigated
Limited information disclosure with no direct code execution, though it could facilitate more sophisticated attacks.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires user interaction (opening malicious file) and knowledge of memory layout.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: After Effects 25.2 and 24.6.5
Vendor Advisory: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/after_effects/apsb25-23.html
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Open Adobe Creative Cloud application. 2. Navigate to 'Apps' section. 3. Find After Effects and click 'Update'. 4. Restart After Effects after update completes.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Restrict file handling
allConfigure After Effects to only open trusted project files from known sources.
Disable automatic file opening
allPrevent After Effects from automatically opening project files.
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Restrict user permissions to prevent opening untrusted After Effects project files.
- Implement application whitelisting to control which users can run After Effects.
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check After Effects version via Help > About After Effects. If version is 25.1, 24.6.4 or earlier, system is vulnerable.Check Version:
On Windows: wmic product where name="Adobe After Effects" get version. On macOS: /Applications/Adobe\ After\ Effects\ */Adobe\ After\ Effects.app/Contents/Info.plist | grep -A1 CFBundleShortVersionStringVerify Fix Applied:
Verify After Effects version is 25.2 or 24.6.5 or later via Help > About After Effects.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- After Effects crash logs showing memory access violations
- Unexpected file opening events in application logs
Network Indicators:
- Unusual outbound connections after opening After Effects files
SIEM Query:
source="*after_effects*" AND (event_type="crash" OR file_path="*.aep")