Adobe InDesign Desktop up to 19.5.5/20.5 File heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe InDesign Desktop up to 19.5.5/20.5. It has been rated as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component File Handler. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-61832. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe InDesign Desktop up to 19.5.5/20.5. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component File Handler. 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:

InDesign Desktop versions 20.5, 19.5.5 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 known as CVE-2025-61832 since 10/01/2025. 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. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/16/2025).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2565). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Adobe Creative Cloud

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Type

• Image Processing Software

Vendor

• Adobe

Name

• InDesign Desktop

Version

• 19.5.0
• 19.5.1
• 19.5.2
• 19.5.3
• 19.5.4
• 19.5.5
• 20.0
• 20.1
• 20.2
• 20.3
• 20.4
• 20.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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