Adobe Security Bulletin

Security updates available for Substance 3D Modeler | APSB25-21

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB25-21

March 11, 2025

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Substance 3D Modeler.  This update addresses critical and important vulnerabilities in Adobe Substance 3D Modeler. Successful exploitation could lead to application denial-of-service, 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 Substance 3D Modeler

1.15 and earlier versions

All 

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.   

Product

Version

Platform

Priority

Availability

Adobe Substance 3D Modeler

1.21.0

All

3

Download Center     

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.  

Vulnerability Details

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-2025-27181

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-2025-27173

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-2025-21170

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-2025-27180

Acknowledgments:

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

  • Francis Provencher (prl) - CVE-2025-21170, CVE-2025-27181
  • jony_juice - CVE-2025-27173, CVE-2025-27180

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

Revisions

March 11, 2025 - added CVE-2025-27180 and CVE-2025-27181. Solution version changed to 1.21.0

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