Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Update Available for Adobe InDesign | APSB24-88

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB24-88

November 12 2024

3

Summary

Adobe has released a security update for Adobe InDesign.  This update addresses critical and important vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation 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

Affected version

Relevant CVE

Platform

Adobe InDesign

ID19.5 and earlier version.

CVE-2024-49507

CVE-2024-49508

CVE-2024-49509

CVE-2024-49510

CVE-2024-49511

CVE-2024-49512

Windows and macOS 

Adobe InDesign

ID18.5.3 and earlier version                                       

CVE-2024-49509

CVE-2024-49510

CVE-2024-49511

CVE-2024-49512

Windows and macOS 

Adobe InDesign

ID18.5.2 and earlier version

CVE-2024-49507

CVE-2024-49508

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

Relevant CVE

Platform

Priority rating

Adobe InDesign

ID20.0

CVE-2024-49507

CVE-2024-49508

CVE-2024-49509

CVE-2024-49510

CVE-2024-49511

CVE-2024-49512

Windows and macOS

3

Adobe InDesign

ID18.5.4

CVE-2024-49507

CVE-2024-49508

CVE-2024-49509

CVE-2024-49510

CVE-2024-49511

CVE-2024-49512

 

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

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-2024-49507

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-2024-49508

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-2024-49509

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-2024-49510

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-2024-49511

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-2024-49512

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following researcher for reporting this issue and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:   

  • Francis Provencher (prl) - CVE-2024-49507, CVE-2024-49508, CVE-2024-49509
  • Anonymous - CVE-2024-49510, CVE-2024-49511, CVE-2024-49512

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

Revisions:

November 22, 2024 - Added clarity to Solution versioning


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

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