Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe FrameMaker | APSB25-83

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB25-83

August 12, 2025

3

Summary

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

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

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Adobe FrameMaker

2020 Release Update 8 and earlier    
  

Windows

Adobe FrameMaker

2022 Release Update 6 and earlier   

    

Windows

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version:

Product

Version

Platform

Priority

Availability

Adobe FrameMaker

FrameMaker 2020 Update 9

Windows

3

Adobe FrameMaker

FrameMaker 2022 Update 7

 

Windows

3

Vulnerability Details

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVSS base score 

CVE Numbers

Use After Free (CWE-416)

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-2025-54229

Use After Free (CWE-416)

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-2025-54230

Use After Free (CWE-416)

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-2025-54231

Use After Free (CWE-416)

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-2025-54232

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-2025-54233

Acknowledgments

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

  • yjdfy - CVE-2025-54229, CVE-2025-54230, CVE-2025-54231, CVE-2025-54232
  • Francis Provencher (prl) - CVE-2025-54233

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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