CVE-2021-42268 Adobe Animate FLA File Parsing Null Pointer Dereference Application Denial of Service

2021-10-2600:00:00

CWE-476

adobe

www.cve.org

adobe animate

fla file

null pointer dereference

vulnerability

denial of service

CVSS3

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

6.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

26.8%

JSON

Adobe Animate version 21.0.9 (and earlier) is affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted FLA file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Animate",
    "vendor": "Adobe",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "21.0.9",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "None",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]