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CVE-2021-45051: Adobe Bridge JPEG2000 Parsing Use-After-Free Information Disclosure Vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Adobe Bridge version 11.1.2 (and earlier) and version 12.0 (and earlier) are affected by an use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Format event actions that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

• Adobe Bridge: before 11.1.3; 12.0 — fixed in 11.1.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Adobe Bridge 11.1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/bridge/apsb22-03.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/bridge/apsb22-03.html

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