CVE-2024-52990: Adobe Animate

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

Animate versions 23.0.8, 24.0.5 and earlier are affected by a Buffer Underwrite ('Buffer Underflow') vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to manipulate memory in such a way that they could execute code under the privileges of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

• Adobe Animate: from 23.0.0, before 23.0.9 (fixed in 23.0.9); from 24.0.0, before 24.0.6 (fixed in 24.0.6)

Published 2024-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.