Adobe Security Bulletin

Security updates available for Adobe Animate | APSB20-61

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

ASPB20-61

October 20, 2020     

3

Summary

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

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Animate

20.5 and earlier versions      

Windows

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

Animate       

21.0

Windows and macOS

3

Download Center     

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

Double-free

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

CVE-2020-9747

Stack-based buffer overflow

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

CVE-2020-9748

Out-of-bounds read

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

CVE-2020-9749

CVE-2020-9750

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank Kexu Wang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs for reporting these 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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