Adobe Animate Buffer Underwrite Vulnerability
CVE-2024-52990 Published on December 10, 2024
Animate | Buffer Underwrite ('Buffer Underflow') (CWE-124)
Animate versions 23.0.8, 24.0.5 and earlier are affected by a Buffer Underwrite ('Buffer Underflow') vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to manipulate memory in such a way that they could execute code under the privileges of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-52990 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a buffer underrun Vulnerability?
The software writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location prior to the beginning of the buffer. This typically occurs when a pointer or its index is decremented to a position before the buffer, when pointer arithmetic results in a position before the beginning of the valid memory location, or when a negative index is used.
CVE-2024-52990 has been classified to as a buffer underrun vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-52990
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Affected Versions
Adobe Animate:- Before and including 24.0.5 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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