Adobe After Effects version 18.4.1 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability due to insecure handling of a malicious MXF file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required in that the victim must open a specially crafted file to exploit this vulnerability.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40757
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/after_effects/apsb21-79.html