{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-40768 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-40768 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-40768 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Character Animator (Preview 4), published on 16 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-40768 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-40768 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Character Animator (Preview 4), published on 16 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-40768 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Adobe Character Animator (Preview 4). No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40768/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40768/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-40768","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40768/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-40768","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-f45h-vw2p-x3qx"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Adobe Character Animator","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can cause a denial of service in Adobe Character Animator by tricking a user into opening a malicious file.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"adobe","cpe":[{"product":"character_animator","vendor":"adobe"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"Adobe Character Animator version 4.4 (and earlier) is affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted 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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Adobe Character Animator NULL Pointer Dereference Application denial-of-service","id":"CVE-2021-40768","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Adobe Character Animator SVG File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2021-40769"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Adobe Character Animator Memory Corruption could lead to Application denial-of-service","id":"CVE-2021-40767"},"products":["Character Animator (Preview 4)"],"published":"2022-03-16","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Adobe Character Animator SVG File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-34241","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-07-15"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Adobe Character Animator SVG File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-34242","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-07-15"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Adobe Character Animator SVG File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-28819","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-05-12"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Adobe Character Animator Memory Corruption could lead to Arbitrary code execution","id":"CVE-2021-40763","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-03-16"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Adobe Character Animator Memory Corruption could lead to Arbitrary code execution","id":"CVE-2021-40764","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-03-16"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Adobe Character Animator Memory Corruption could lead to Arbitrary code execution","id":"CVE-2021-40765","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-03-16"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Adobe Character Animator Memory Corruption Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2021-36000","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-08-20"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-04-23","vendors":["Adobe"]},"summary":"An attacker can cause a denial of service in Adobe Character Animator by tricking a user into opening a malicious file.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40768/"}