Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe After Effects | APSB24-85

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

ASPB24-85

November 12, 2024    

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe After Effects for Windows and macOS.  This update addresses  critical and important security vulnerabilities.  Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution and memory leak in the context of the current user.   

Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in these updates.

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Adobe After Effects

24.6.2 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Adobe After Effects

23.6.9 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

Adobe After Effects

24.6.3

Windows and macOS

3

Adobe After Effects

25.0

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

CVE-2024-47441

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

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

CVE-2024-47442

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

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

CVE-2024-47443

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

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

CVE-2024-47444

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

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

CVE-2024-47445

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

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

CVE-2024-47446

Acknowledgements

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

  • jony_juice - CVE-2024-47441
  • Anonymous - CVE-2024-47442, CVE-2024-47443, CVE-2024-47444, CVE-2024-47445, CVE-2024-47446

NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check us out here: https://hackerone.com/adobe.


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

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