Adobe InDesign Desktop up to 18.5.3/19.5 heap-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adobe InDesign Desktop up to 18.5.3/19.5. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-49509. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe InDesign Desktop up to 18.5.3/19.5. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

InDesign Desktop versions ID18.5.3, ID19.5 and earlier are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow 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 file.

The advisory is shared for download at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-49509 since 10/15/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211463 (Adobe InDesign < 18.5.4 / 19.x < 20.0.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB24-88)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211463). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Image Processing Software

Vendor

• Adobe

Name

• InDesign Desktop

Version

• 18.5.0
• 18.5.1
• 18.5.2
• 18.5.3
• 19.0
• 19.1
• 19.2
• 19.3
• 19.4
• 19.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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