Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe Character Animator | APSB22-21

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB22-21

May 10, 2022    

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Character Animator for Windows and macOS. This update resolves a critical vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution
 

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Character Animator 2021

4.4.2 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Character Animator 2022

22.3 and earlier versions

Windows and macOS

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings 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 Rating

Availability

Character Animator 2021     

4.4.7                    

Windows and macOS

3

Character Animator 2022  

22.4

Windows and macOS

3

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

CVSS base score 

CVE Numbers

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
 

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
 

CVE-2022-28819
 

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following researchers for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:   

  • Mat Powell working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (CVE-2022-28819) 

Revisions

  • October 27th, 2021 - Updated acknowledgments for CVE-2021-40769

 

 


For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com 

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