Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on 27 July 2021

Security updates available for Adobe Animate | APSB21-21

Bulletin ID	Date Published	Priority
ASPB21-21	March 09, 2021	3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Animate. This update resolves multiple critical and important vulnerabilities.  Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.   

Affected Versions

Product	Version	Platform
Adobe Animate	21.0.3  and earlier versions	Windows
Adobe Animate	20.5.1  and earlier versions	Windows

Solution

Adobe categorizes this update with the following  priority rating and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app's update mechanism. For more information, please reference this help page.

Product	Version	Platform	Priority	Availability
Adobe Animate	21.0.4	Windows and macOS	3	Download Center
Adobe Animate	20.5.2	Windows and macOS	3	Download Center

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability Category	Vulnerability Impact	Severity	CVE Numbers
Out-of-bounds read	Information Disclosure	Important	CVE-2021-21072 CVE-2021-21073 CVE-2021-21074 CVE-2021-21075 CVE-2021-21076
Buffer overflow	Arbitrary code execution	Critical	CVE-2021-21071 CVE-2021-21077

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank Yongjun Liu of nsfocus security team for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers

Revisions

June 23, 2018: Updated the affected version and solution version tables with LTS version details.

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