Adobe Illustrator up to 3.0.9 on iPad File integer underflow

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Illustrator up to 3.0.9 on iPad. It has been classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component File Handler. The manipulation leads to integer underflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-61836. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Illustrator up to 3.0.9 on iPad. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer underflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-191. The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Illustrator on iPad versions 3.0.9 and earlier are affected by an Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) 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. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-61836 since 10/01/2025. 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. 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

• Illustrator

Version

• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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