Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on Jul 29, 2021

Security Updates Available for Adobe Character Animator | APSB21-59

Bulletin ID	Date Published	Priority
ASPB21-59	July 20, 2021	3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Character Animator for Windows and macOS. This update resolves a critical and an important vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

Affected Versions

Product	Version	Platform
Character Animator 2020	4.2 and earlier versions	Windows

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
Character Animator 2020	4.4	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	CVSS base score	CVSS vector	CVE Numbers
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)	Memory leak	Important	4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	CVE-2021-36001
Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer (CWE-788)	Arbitrary Code Execution	Critical	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CVE-2021-36000

Acknowledgments

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

Francis Provencher {PRL} working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (CVE-2021-36001)
CQY of Topsec Alpha Team (yjdfy) (CVE-2021-36000)

Revisions

July 29, 2021: Updated the Vulnerability Impact for CVE-2021-36001.

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

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