CVE-2021-40766: Adobe Character Animator

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Character Animator version 4.4 (and earlier versions) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. 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 4.4

Published 2022-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.