Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on Dec 10, 2024

Security Updates Available for Adobe Media Encoder | APSB24-93

Bulletin ID	Date Published	Priority
APSB24-93	December 10, 2024	3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Media Encoder.  This update resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and application denial-of-service.

Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in these updates.

Affected Versions

Product	Version	Platform
Adobe Media Encoder	24.6.3 and earlier versions	Windows and macOS
Adobe Media Encoder	25.0 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
Adobe Media Encoder	24.6.4	Windows and macOS	3
Adobe Media Encoder	25.1	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	CVSS vector	CVE Numbers
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-2024-49551
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-2024-49552
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-2024-49553
NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)	Application denial-of-service	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CVE-2024-49554

Acknowledgments

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

jony_juice - CVE-2024-49552, CVE-2024-49553, CVE-2024-49554
Anonymous - CVE-2024-49551

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 out https://hackerone.com/adobe

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

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