Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Update Available for Adobe InDesign | APSB24-97

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB24-97

December 10, 2024

3

Summary

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

Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in these updates.

Affected Versions

Product

Affected version

Platform

Adobe InDesign

ID19.5 and earlier versions

Windows and macOS 

Adobe InDesign

ID18.5.4 and earlier versions

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

ID20.0 and above

Windows and macOS

3

Adobe InDesign

ID19.5.1 and above

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

Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121)

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-2024-49543

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Memory leak

Critical

7.8

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

CVE-2024-49544

Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)

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-2024-49545

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-2024-49546

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-2024-49547

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-2024-49548

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-2024-49549

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-2024-53951

NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)

Application denial-of-service

Important

5.5

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

CVE-2024-53952

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following researchers for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:   

  • Francis Provencher (prl) - CVE-2024-49543, CVE-2024-49544, CVE-2024-49545, CVE-2024-49548, CVE-2024-49549, CVE-2024-53951, CVE-2024-53952
  • Anonymous - CVE-2024-49546, CVE-2024-49547

NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check out https://hackerone.com/adobe


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

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