CWE-657
Violation of Secure Design Principles
The product violates well-established principles for secure design.
CVE-2025-54255 (GCVE-0-2025-54255)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-09 20:10
Modified
2025-10-01 21:37
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CWE
- CWE-657 - Violation of Secure Design Principles ()
Summary
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.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Adobe | Acrobat Reader |
Version: 0 ≤ 25.001.20672 |
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No mitigation information available for this CWE.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.