Adobe Animate up to 23.0.11/24.0.8 integer underflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Animate up to 23.0.11/24.0.8. This impacts an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in integer underflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-43555. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adobe Animate up to 23.0.11/24.0.8. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer underflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-191. The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Animate versions 24.0.8, 23.0.11 and earlier are affected by an Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) 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 advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-43555 since 04/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. 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 235862 (Adobe Animate 23.x < 23.0.12 / 24.x < 24.0.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB25-42)), 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 (235862). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• Adobe

Name

• Animate

Version

• 23.0.0
• 23.0.1
• 23.0.2
• 23.0.3
• 23.0.4
• 23.0.5
• 23.0.6
• 23.0.7
• 23.0.8
• 23.0.9
• 23.0.10
• 23.0.11
• 24.0.0
• 24.0.1
• 24.0.2
• 24.0.3
• 24.0.4
• 24.0.5
• 24.0.6
• 24.0.7
• 24.0.8

License

• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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