CVE-2021-36000: Adobe Character Animator

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Character Animator version 4.2 (and earlier) is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

• Adobe Character Animator: up to and including 4.2

Published 2021-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.