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🛡️ CVE-2025-54255 — acrobat

🟡 CVSS 4.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-657 NVD
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Description

Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30254, 20.005.30774, 25.001.20672 and earlier are affected by a Violation of Secure Design Principles vulnerability that could result in a security feature bypass impacting integrity. An attacker does not have to be authenticated. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction, and scope is unchanged.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-54255 is classified as CWE-657: Violation of Secure Design Principles. The product violates well-established principles for secure design.

Affected software

CVE-2025-54255 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • acrobat (from 20.001.30002 up to 20.005.30791)
  • acrobat-dc (from 15.008.20082 up to 25.001.20693)
  • acrobat-reader (from 20.001.30002 up to 20.005.30791)
  • acrobat-reader-dc (from 15.008.20082 up to 25.001.20693)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 September 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

helpx.adobe.com

Other advisories for this package

acrobat has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-657: Violation of Secure Design Principles) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-657
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-09-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
acrobat 20.001.30002 20.005.30791
acrobat-dc 15.008.20082 25.001.20693
acrobat-reader 20.001.30002 20.005.30791
acrobat-reader-dc 15.008.20082 25.001.20693

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