CWE-416
Use After Free
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
CVE-2025-43550 (GCVE-0-2025-43550)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-10 19:11 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50
VLAI
Title
Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30235, 20.005.30763, 25.001.20521 and earlier are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe | Acrobat Reader |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 25.001.20521
(semver)
|
Date Public
2025-06-10 17:00
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CVE-2025-43568 (GCVE-0-2025-43568)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 20:19 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Title
Substance3D - Stager | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
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Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
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1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/substan… | vendor-advisory |
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CVE-2025-43570 (GCVE-0-2025-43570)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 20:19 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Title
Substance3D - Stager | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
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Severity
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SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/substan… | vendor-advisory |
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| Adobe | Substance3D - Stager |
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CVE-2025-43571 (GCVE-0-2025-43571)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 20:19 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Title
Substance3D - Stager | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
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Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
1 reference
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|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/substan… | vendor-advisory |
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| Adobe | Substance3D - Stager |
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Date Public
2025-05-13 17:00
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CVE-2025-43573 (GCVE-0-2025-43573)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-10 19:11 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50
VLAI
Title
Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
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Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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| Adobe | Acrobat Reader |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 25.001.20521
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|
Date Public
2025-06-10 17:00
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CVE-2025-43574 (GCVE-0-2025-43574)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-10 19:11 – Updated: 2025-06-10 19:39
VLAI
Title
Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30235, 20.005.30763, 25.001.20521 and earlier are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat… | vendor-advisory |
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Affected:
0 , ≤ 25.001.20521
(semver)
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Date Public
2025-06-10 17:00
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CVE-2025-43576 (GCVE-0-2025-43576)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-10 19:11 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50
VLAI
Title
Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
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Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat… | vendor-advisory |
| https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_r… |
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2025-06-10 17:00
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CVE-2025-43577 (GCVE-0-2025-43577)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-10 19:11 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50
VLAI
Title
Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
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Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat… | vendor-advisory |
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| Adobe | Acrobat Reader |
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0 , ≤ 25.001.20521
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Date Public
2025-06-10 17:00
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CVE-2025-43589 (GCVE-0-2025-43589)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-10 16:23 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50
VLAI
Title
InDesign Desktop | Use After Free (CWE-416)
Summary
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Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/indesig… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
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|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe | InDesign Desktop |
Affected:
0 , ≤ ID19.5.3
(semver)
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Date Public
2025-06-10 17:00
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CVE-2025-4516 (GCVE-0-2025-4516)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-15 13:29 – Updated: 2026-04-21 20:16
VLAI
Title
Use-after-free in "unicode_escape" decoder with error handler
Summary
There is an issue in CPython when using `bytes.decode("unicode_escape", error="ignore|replace")`. If you are not using the "unicode_escape" encoding or an error handler your usage is not affected. To work-around this issue you may stop using the error= handler and instead wrap the bytes.decode() call in a try-except catching the DecodeError.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
12 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | CPython |
Affected:
0 , < 3.10.18
(python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.13 (python) Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.11 (python) Affected: 3.13.0 , < 3.13.4 (python) Affected: 3.14.0a1 , < 3.14.0b2 (python) |
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Mitigation
Phase: Architecture and Design
Strategy: Language Selection
Description:
- Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
Mitigation
Phase: Implementation
Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction
Description:
- When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.