2021-28629 | Adobe Animate heap-based overflow (apsb21-50)

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Animate up to 21.0.6. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Adobe Animate version 21.0.6 (and earlier) is affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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 shared 08/25/2021 as apsb21-50. The advisory is shared for download at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2021-28629 since 03/16/2021. 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 08/27/2021).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-122
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Upgrade: helpx.adobe.com

03/16/2021 CVE assigned
08/25/2021 +161 days Advisory disclosed
08/25/2021 +0 days VulDB entry created
08/27/2021 +1 days VulDB last updateVendor: https://www.adobe.com/

Advisory: apsb21-50
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2021-28629 (🔒)

Created: 08/25/2021 09:09
Updated: 08/27/2021 00:32
Changes: (1) source_cve_cna
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