THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2022-23188
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2022-23188

Illustrator vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
4.4%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Adobe Illustrator versions 25.4.3 (and earlier) and 26.0.2 (and earlier) are affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability due to insecure handling of a crafted malicious file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted malicious file in Illustrator.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Illustrator
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow
Published
2022-02-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-23188

  • Confirm whether Adobe Illustrator is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-23188.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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