Adobe Illustrator up to 28.7.6/29.5.1 stack-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Adobe Illustrator up to 28.7.6/29.5.1. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-49528. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Illustrator up to 28.7.6/29.5.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Illustrator versions 28.7.6, 29.5.1 and earlier are affected by a Stack-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. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-49528 since 06/06/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/10/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 241582 (Adobe Illustrator < 28.7.8 / 29.0.0 < 29.6.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB25-65)), 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 (241582) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-20733). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Image Processing Software

Vendor

• Adobe

Name

• Illustrator

Version

• 28.7.0
• 28.7.1
• 28.7.2
• 28.7.3
• 28.7.4
• 28.7.5
• 28.7.6
• 29.5.0
• 29.5.1

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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