Adobe Animate UAF before 24.0.9 leads to memory disclosure
CVE-2025-49562 Published on August 12, 2025

Animate | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Animate versions 23.0.12, 24.0.9 and earlier are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-49562 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 have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
NONE

Weakness Type

What is a Dangling pointer Vulnerability?

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.

CVE-2025-49562 has been classified to as a Dangling pointer vulnerability or weakness.


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Affected Versions

Adobe Animate:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.03%
Percentile
7.52%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.