Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Update Available for Adobe InDesign | APSB23-38

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB23-38

July 11, 2023 

3

Summary

Adobe has released a security update for Adobe InDesign.  This update addresses critical and important vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution and memory leak.

Affected versions

Product

Affected version

Platform

Adobe InDesign

ID18.3 and earlier version.

Windows and macOS 

Adobe InDesign

ID17.4.1 and earlier version.                                         

Windows and macOS 

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority rating and recommends users update their software installations via the Creative Cloud desktop app updater, or by navigating to the InDesign Help menu and clicking "Updates." For more information, please reference this help page.

Product

Updated version

Platform

Priority rating

Adobe InDesign

ID18.4

Windows and macOS

3

Adobe InDesign

ID17.4.2

Windows and macOS

3

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Creative Cloud Packager to create deployment packages. Refer to this help page for more information.

Vulnerability Details

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVSS base score 

CVE Number

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2023-29308

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29309

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29310

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29311

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29312

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29313

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29314

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29315

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29316

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29317

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29318

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-29319

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following researcher for reporting this issue and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:   

  • Yonghui Han of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs - CVE-2023-29308, CVE-2023-29309, CVE-2023-29310, CVE-2023-29311, CVE-2023-29312, CVE-2023-29313, CVE-2023-29314, CVE-2023-29315, CVE-2023-29316, CVE-2023-29317, CVE-2023-29318, CVE-2023-29319

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For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com

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