CVE-2025-49562
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedAnimate versions 23.0.12, 24.0.9 and earlier are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceAdobe Animate versions 23.0.12, 24.0.9 and earlier contain a Use After Free vulnerability in the file parsing component that can be triggered when a victim opens a maliciously crafted .an or .fla file. The vulnerability allows attackers to read sensitive memory contents beyond the freed object boundaries.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data>= 23.0.0, < 23.0.13>= 24.0.0, < 24.0.10CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify installed Adobe Animate versionOpen Adobe Animate and go to Help > About Adobe Animate to display the exact version number (for example, 23.0.5 or 24.0.2)Affected if Version displays as 23.0.12 or earlier, or 24.0.9 or earlier (these versions fall within the affected ranges)
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Confirm version is within affected rangeCompare your installed version against the vulnerable ranges: 23.0.0 through 23.0.12, and 24.0.0 through 24.0.9Affected if Installed version number is 23.0.0 through 23.0.12, or 24.0.0 through 24.0.9
Your environment is affected if the installed Adobe Animate version is any release from 23.0.0 to 23.0.12 inclusive, or from 24.0.0 to 24.0.9 inclusive.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped23.0.1324.0.10
Update Adobe Animate to the latest patched version (beyond 24.0.9) and instruct users to avoid opening Animate files from untrusted or unknown sources.
Adobe Animate 23.0.13 or 24.0.10
- Upgrade Adobe Animate from any version 23.0.0-23.0.12 to version 23.0.13 or later
- Alternatively, upgrade Adobe Animate from any version 24.0.0-24.0.9 to version 24.0.10 or later
- To upgrade, open the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop application and navigate to the Animate app, or download the update directly from helpx.adobe.com
- After upgrading, verify the installed version matches the fixed release (23.0.13 or 24.0.10)
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-49562 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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