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 declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component File Handler. The manipulation results in integer underflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-61826. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adobe Illustrator up to 3.0.9 on iPad. Affected is some unknown processing of the component File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer underflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-61826 since 10/01/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. 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 11/16/2025).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2565). Once again VulDB remains the best source 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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