Adobe Photoshop Font Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description

Adobe Photoshop versions 22.5.6 (and earlier) and 23.2.2 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a crafted file, which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-125 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Adobe · Photoshop

  • affected unspecified – ≤ 22.5.6
  • affected unspecified – ≤ 23.2.2
  • affected unspecified – ≤ None

References (1)

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/photoshop/apsb22-20.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 23 Apr 2025, 18:28 UTC.