Adobe Illustrator up to 28.7.10/29.8.2 File heap-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Adobe Illustrator up to 28.7.10/29.8.2. The affected element is an unknown function of the component File Handler. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-61820. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Illustrator up to 28.7.10/29.8.2. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code 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:

Illustrator versions 28.7.10, 29.8.2 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 at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-61820 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. 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 11/16/2025).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2565). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

• Adobe Creative Cloud

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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
• 28.7.7
• 28.7.8
• 28.7.9
• 28.7.10
• 29.8.0
• 29.8.1
• 29.8.2

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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