CVE-2022-34242: Adobe Character Animator

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Character Animator version 4.4.7 (and earlier) and 22.4 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a crafted file, which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code 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 4.4.7; from 22.0, up to and including 22.4

Published 2022-07-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.