Adobe Animate up to 23.0.11/24.0.8 uninitialized pointer

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Animate up to 23.0.11/24.0.8 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to uninitialized pointer. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-43557. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Animate up to 23.0.11/24.0.8 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uninitialized pointer vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-824. The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Animate versions 24.0.8, 23.0.11 and earlier are affected by an Access of Uninitialized Pointer 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-43557 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not 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). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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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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