Adobe Animate up to 22.0.8/23.0.0 heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Animate up to 22.0.8/23.0.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-22236. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Animate up to 22.0.8/23.0.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. 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 summary by CVE is:

Adobe Animate versions 22.0.8 (and earlier) and 23.0.0 (and earlier) are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

The weakness was disclosed 02/18/2023 as apsb23-15. It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-22236 since 12/19/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-26400). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.9

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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CNA Base Score: 7.8
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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

12/19/2022 🔍
02/18/2023 +61 days 🔍
02/18/2023 +0 days 🔍
09/27/2025 +952 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: apsb23-15
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-22236 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-22236
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-221387
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Entryinfo

Created: 02/18/2023 07:50
Updated: 09/27/2025 10:33
Changes: 02/18/2023 07:50 (49), 09/27/2025 10:33 (16)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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