Adobe Substance3D up to 14.1 heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Adobe Substance3D up to 14.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-21169. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Substance3D up to 14.1. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Substance3D - Designer versions 14.1 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 at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-21169 since 12/04/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232716 (Adobe Substance 3D Designer 14.1.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB25-22)), 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 (232716). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Adobe

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• Substance3D

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• 14.0
• 14.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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