CVE-2022-28852 (GCVE-0-2022-28852)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-16 17:20 – Updated: 2025-04-23 17:07
VLAI?
Title
Adobe InDesign 2022 Out-of-Bound Write Arbitrary code execution
Summary
Adobe InDesign versions 16.4.2 (and earlier) and 17.3 (and earlier) are affected by by an out-of-bounds write 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)
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
Assigner
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Impacted products
Date Public ?
2022-09-13 00:00
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