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CVE-2025-27170:
Adobe Illustrator vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability (CVE-2025-27170) affects Adobe Illustrator versions 29.2.1, 28.7.4 and earlier. The vulnerability was disclosed on March 11, 2025, and was discovered by Francis Provencher (prl). This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 (Medium) (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) with a CVSS vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H. The attack requires local access and user interaction, specifically opening a malicious file, to be exploited (NVD).
Impact
If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could result in an application denial-of-service condition. The impact is limited to crashing the application, with no confidentiality or integrity impacts reported (NVD, Rapid7).
Mitigation and workarounds
Adobe has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update to Illustrator 2025 version 29.3 or later, and Illustrator 2024 version 28.7.5 or later (ASEC).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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