CVE-2024-49527
📋 TL;DR
Adobe Animate versions 23.0.7, 24.0.4 and earlier contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could allow attackers to read sensitive memory contents and potentially bypass ASLR protections. Users who open malicious Animate files with these vulnerable versions are affected. This requires user interaction through opening a malicious file.
💻 Affected Systems
- Adobe Animate
📦 What is this software?
Animate by Adobe
Animate by Adobe
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
An attacker could read sensitive memory contents, potentially obtaining credentials, encryption keys, or other protected data, and bypass ASLR to enable more sophisticated attacks.
Likely Case
Information disclosure of memory contents, potentially revealing application data or system information that could aid further exploitation.
If Mitigated
Limited impact with proper user education about not opening untrusted files and network segmentation.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires user interaction (opening malicious file) and knowledge of memory layout. No public exploit code is known at this time.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Update to Animate 23.0.8 or 24.0.5
Vendor Advisory: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/animate/apsb24-76.html
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Open Adobe Animate. 2. Go to Help > Check for Updates. 3. Follow prompts to install updates. 4. Restart Animate after installation completes.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Restrict file opening
allConfigure application controls to prevent opening untrusted Animate files
User education
allTrain users to only open Animate files from trusted sources
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement application whitelisting to block execution of vulnerable Animate versions
- Use network segmentation to isolate systems running vulnerable versions
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check Animate version via Help > About Adobe Animate. If version is 23.0.7 or earlier, or 24.0.4 or earlier, system is vulnerable.Check Version:
On Windows: Check via Help > About Adobe Animate. On macOS: Check via Adobe Animate > About Adobe Animate.Verify Fix Applied:
Verify version is 23.0.8 or higher for version 23, or 24.0.5 or higher for version 24.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Animate crash logs showing memory access violations
- Unexpected file opening events in application logs
Network Indicators:
- Downloads of Animate files from untrusted sources
SIEM Query:
source="*animate*" AND (event="crash" OR event="file_open")