Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe After Effects | APSB24-55

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

ASPB24-55

September 10, 2024    

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe After Effects for Windows and macOS.  This update addresses  criticalimportant and moderate security vulnerabilities.  Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution, memory leak and arbitrary file system write in the context of the current user.   

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Adobe After Effects

24.5 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Adobe After Effects

23.6.6 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings 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 Rating

Availability

Adobe After Effects

24.6

Windows and macOS

3

Adobe After Effects

23.6.9

Windows and macOS

3

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

CVSS base score 

CVE Numbers

Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2024-39380

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2024-39381

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2024-41859

Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121)

Arbitrary file system write

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2024-41867

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Moderate

3.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE-2024-39382

Acknowledgements

Adobe would like to thank the following for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:

  • Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative - CVE-2024-39381, CVE-2024-39382
  • Francis Provencher (prl)  - CVE-2024-39380
  • jony_juice - CVE-2024-41859
  • Anonymous - CVE-2024-41867

NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check us out here: https://hackerone.com/adobe.


For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com.

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