Adobe InCopy up to 19.5.4/20.4 heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe InCopy up to 19.5.4/20.4. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-54219. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe InCopy up to 19.5.4/20.4. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. 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:

InCopy versions 20.4, 19.5.4 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-2025-54219 since 07/17/2025. 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 current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 08/12/2025).

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Productinfo

Vendor

Adobe

Name

InCopy

Version

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.9

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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CNA Base Score: 7.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

07/17/2025 CVE reserved
08/12/2025 +26 days Advisory disclosed
08/12/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
08/12/2025 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: apsb25-80
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-54219 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-54219
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-319808

Entryinfo

Created: 08/12/2025 23:34
Changes: 08/12/2025 23:34 (63)
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