CVE-2021-42270: Adobe Animate

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Animate version 21.0.9 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in 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 BMP file.

Affected products

• Adobe Animate: up to and including 21.0.9

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