Adobe Framemaker up to 2020.8/2022.6 heap-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Adobe Framemaker up to 2020.8/2022.6. The impacted element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-30295. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Adobe Framemaker up to 2020.8/2022.6. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Framemaker versions 2020.8, 2022.6 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-30295 since 03/20/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 234020 (Adobe FrameMaker 2020 < 16.0.8 (2020.0.8) / Adobe FrameMaker 2022 < 17.0.6 (2022.0.6) Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB25-33)), 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 (234020). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Adobe

Name

• Framemaker

Version

• 2020.0
• 2020.1
• 2020.2
• 2020.3
• 2020.4
• 2020.5
• 2020.6
• 2020.7
• 2020.8
• 2022.0
• 2022.1
• 2022.2
• 2022.3
• 2022.4
• 2022.5
• 2022.6

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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