Bulletin ID
Last updated on
Mar. 21, 2025
Security Updates Available for Adobe Illustrator | APSB25-17
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Date Published |
Priority |
|---|---|---|
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APSB25-17 |
March 11, 2025 |
3 |
Summary
Adobe has released an update for Adobe Illustrator. This update resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that 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
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Product |
Version |
Platform |
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Illustrator 2025 |
29.2.1 and earlier |
Windows and macOS |
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Illustrator 2024 |
28.7.4 and earlier versions |
Windows and macOS |
Solution
Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app's update mechanism. For more information, please reference this help page.
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Product |
Version |
Platform |
Priority |
Availability |
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Illustrator 2025 |
29.3 and above |
Windows and macOS |
3 |
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Illustrator 2024 |
28.7.5 and above |
Windows and macOS |
3 |
Vulnerability Details
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Vulnerability Category |
Vulnerability Impact |
Severity |
CVSS base score |
CVE Numbers |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426) |
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-2025-27167 |
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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-2025-27168 |
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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-2025-27169 |
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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-2025-24448 |
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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-2025-24449 |
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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-2025-27170 |
Acknowledgments
Adobe would like to thank the following researcher for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:
- jony_juice - CVE-2025-27167, CVE-2025-27168, CVE-2025-27169
- Anonymous - CVE-2025-24448, CVE-2025-24449
- Francis Provencher (prl) - CVE-2025-27170
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
