Adobe Animate up to 23.0.13/24.0.10 File heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Animate up to 23.0.13/24.0.10. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component File Handler. Such manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-61804. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Animate up to 23.0.13/24.0.10. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component File Handler. 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. CVE summarizes:

Animate versions 23.0.13, 24.0.10 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 advisory is shared for download at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-61804 since 10/01/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/19/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 270359 (Adobe Animate 23.x < 23.0.15 / 24.x < 24.0.12 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB25-97)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at CNNVD (CNNVD-202510-2277), Tenable (270359) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-34493). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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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
• 23.0.12
• 23.0.13
• 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
• 24.0.9
• 24.0.10

License

• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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