Adobe InCopy up to 19.5.3/20.2 heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Adobe InCopy up to 19.5.3/20.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-47107. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe InCopy up to 19.5.3/20.2. It has been classified as critical. 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:

InCopy versions 20.2, 19.5.3 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-2025-47107 since 04/30/2025. 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 238052 (Adobe InCopy < 19.5.4 / 20.0 < 20.3.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities Arbitrary code execution (APSB25-41)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (238052) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-17811). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Adobe

Name

• InCopy

Version

• 19.5.0
• 19.5.1
• 19.5.2
• 19.5.3
• 20.0
• 20.1
• 20.2

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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