CVE-2021-39822 (GCVE-0-2021-39822)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-20 06:23
Modified
2025-03-05 18:48
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
Adobe InDesign versions 16.3 (and earlier), and 16.3.1 (and earlier) are affected 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 BMP file.
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Adobe InDesign Version: 0   ≤ 16.3.2
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