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Adobe releases April 2025 patches for multiple products

Take action: This month the highest priority is Adobe ColdFusion, which has a bunch of critical flaws. Then FrameMaker, and then all the rest.


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Adobe has released a significant security update on April 8, 2025, addressing 30 vulnerabilities across multiple products. This update includes patches for critical and important security flaws that could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution, arbitrary file system read, memory leaks, and security feature bypasses.

Adobe ColdFusion - Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion versions 2025, 2023, and 2021, addressing multiple critical and important vulnerabilities. These updates have been assigned a Priority 1 rating, the highest level of importance.

Critical flaws

  • CVE-2025-24446 (CVSS score 9.1) - Improper Input Validation vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read.
  • CVE-2025-24447 (CVSS score 9.1) - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30281 (CVSS score 9.1) - Improper Access Control vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read.
  • CVE-2025-30282 (CVSS score 9.1) - Improper Authentication vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30284 (CVSS score 8.0) - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30285 (CVSS score 8.0) - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30286 (CVSS score 8.0) - OS Command Injection vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30287 (CVSS score 8.1) - Improper Authentication vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30288 (CVSS score 7.8) - Improper Access Control vulnerability that could lead to security feature bypass.
  • CVE-2025-30289 (CVSS score 7.5) - OS Command Injection vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30290 (CVSS score 8.7) - Path Traversal vulnerability that could lead to security feature bypass.

Affected Versions:

  • ColdFusion 2025 (Build 331385)
  • ColdFusion 2023 (Update 12 and earlier versions)
  • ColdFusion 2021 (Update 18 and earlier versions)

Adobe After Effects 

Critical vulnerabilities

  • CVE-2025-27182 (CVSS score 7.8) - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-27183 (CVSS score 7.8) - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Versions:

  • After Effects 24.6.4 and earlier versions
  • After Effects 25.1 and earlier versions

Adobe Media Encoder

Critical vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2025-27194 (CVSS score 7.8) - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-27195 (CVSS score 7.8) - Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Versions:

  • Media Encoder 24.6.4 and earlier versions
  • Media Encoder 25.1 and earlier versions

Adobe Bridge

  • CVE-2025-27193 (CVSS score 7.8) - Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Versions:

  • Bridge 14.1.5 and earlier versions
  • Bridge 15.0.2 and earlier versions

Adobe Premiere Pro

  • CVE-2025-27196 (CVSS score 7.8) - Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Versions:

  • Premiere Pro 25.1 and earlier versions
  • Premiere Pro 24.6.4 and earlier versions

Adobe Photoshop

  • CVE-2025-27198 (CVSS score 7.8) - Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Versions:

  • Photoshop 2025 26.4.1 and earlier versions
  • Photoshop 2024 25.12.1 and earlier versions

Adobe Animate

Critical vulnerabilities

  • CVE-2025-27199 (CVSS score 7.8) - Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-27200 (CVSS score 7.8) - Use After Free vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Versions:

  • Animate 2023 23.0.10 and earlier versions
  • Animate 2024 24.0.7 and earlier versions

Adobe FrameMaker

Critical vulnerabilities

  • CVE-2025-30304 (CVSS score 7.8) - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30295 (CVSS score 7.8) - Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30296 (CVSS score 7.8) - Integer Underflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30297 (CVSS score 7.8) - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30298 (CVSS score 7.8) - Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2025-30299 (CVSS score 7.8) - Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Versions:

  • FrameMaker 2020 Release Update 7 and earlier
  • FrameMaker 2022 Release Update 5 and earlier

Adobe has confirmed that it is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in these updates. However, users are strongly encouraged to update their software to the latest versions to mitigate potential security risks.

 

Adobe releases April 2025 patches for multiple products