Headline
CVE-2023-21592: Adobe Security Bulletin
Adobe InDesign version 18.0 (and earlier), 17.4 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Security Update Available for Adobe InDesign | APSB23-07
Bulletin ID
Date Published
Priority
APSB23-07
January 10, 2023
3
Summary
Adobe has released a security update for Adobe InDesign. This update addresses multiple critical and important vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution, application denial-of-service and memory leak.
Affected versions
ID18.0 and earlier version.
ID17.4 and earlier version.
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
Release: ID18.1
Windows and macOS
3
Adobe InDesign
Release: ID17.4.1
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
CVSS vector
CVE Number
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-2023-21587
Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
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-2023-21588
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-2023-21589
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-2023-21590
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-2023-21591
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-2023-21592
Acknowledgments
Adobe would like to thank the following researcher for reporting this issue and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:
- Mat Powell with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative - CVE-2023-21587; CVE-2023-21588; CVE-2023-21589; CVE-2023-21590; CVE-2023-21591; CVE-2023-21592
Revisions:
- July 13, 2022: Bulletin APSB22-30 revised to include (CVE-2022-34245, CVE-2022-34246, CVE-2022-34247, CVE-2022-34248)
- July 16, 2022: Changed CVE-2022-28851 to 3rd party open-source library vulnerability PhantomJS CVE-2019-17221
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