CVE-2021-42268: Adobe Animate

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Animate version 21.0.9 (and earlier) is affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted FLA file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service 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 Animate: up to and including 21.0.9

Published 2021-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.