Adobe Animate up to 21.0.6 heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Adobe Animate up to 21.0.6. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2021-28620. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Animate up to 21.0.6. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 08/25/2021 as apsb21-50. The advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-28620. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209430 (Adobe Animate 21.x < 21.0.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB21-50)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (209430). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 209430
Nessus Name: Adobe Animate 21.x < 21.0.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB21-50)

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Recommended: Upgrade
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03/16/2021 🔍
08/25/2021 +161 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: apsb21-50
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2021-28620 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2021-28620
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-181421

Entryinfo

Created: 08/25/2021 09:01
Updated: 05/03/2025 12:29
Changes: 08/25/2021 09:01 (37), 08/26/2021 23:15 (2), 08/26/2021 23:25 (1), 10/27/2024 00:48 (16), 05/03/2025 12:29 (3)
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