Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe After Effects | APSB21-49

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

ASPB21-49

June 08, 2021    

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe After Effects for Windows and macOS. This update addresses multiple criticalimportant and moderate vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.          

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Adobe After Effects

18.2 and earlier versions       

Windows

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

18.2.1

Windows and macOS

3

Adobe After Effects

17.7.1

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 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-2021-28600

NULL Pointer Dereference

 (CWE-476

Application denial-of-service 

Moderate

3.3

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

CVE-2021-28601

Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer

(CWE-788)

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-2021-28602

CVE-2021-28605

CVE-2021-28607

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

(CWE-122)

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-2021-28603

CVE-2021-28604

CVE-2021-28608

CVE-2021-28610

Stack-based Buffer Overflow

(CWE-121)

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-2021-28606

Out-of-bounds Read

(CWE-125)

Arbitrary file system read

Important

5.5

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

CVE-2021-28609

CVE-2021-28615

Out-of-bounds Read

(CWE-125)

Memory leak 

Important

6.1

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

CVE-2021-28611

CVE-2021-28612

CVE-2021-28614

CVE-2021-28616

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank Yongjun Liu of nsfocus security team for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers.     

Revisions

May 12, 2021:  Included details for CVE-2021-28586, CVE-2021-28587

October 25, 2021: Added Solution row for N-1 version.




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

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