CVE-2025-30295
Adobe Framemaker vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Adobe Framemaker versions 2020.8, 2022.6 and earlier are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-30295. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on April 8, 2025, and could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. The exploitation of this vulnerability requires user interaction, specifically requiring a victim to open a malicious file (NVD, CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) and Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787). It has received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.8 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability requires local access and user interaction, but no privileges, and can impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability with high severity (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. This means an attacker could potentially execute malicious code with the same privileges as the user running the Adobe Framemaker application (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Adobe has addressed this vulnerability in the latest versions of Framemaker. Users are advised to update their installations to versions newer than 2020.8 for the 2020 series or 2022.6 for the 2022 series to protect against potential threats (NVD).

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