CVE-2023-44345 Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Memory Corruption Vulnerability VII.

What is CVE-2023-44345?

CVE-2023-44345 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Indesign, published on 16 Nov 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Adobe InDesign versions ID18.5 (and earlier) and ID17.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by a Improper Input Validation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-44345?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Indesign.

How do I fix CVE-2023-44345?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-44345 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-44345 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-44345 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Indesign

• CVE-2019-7107 Code injection in InDesign Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11302 Memory corruption in Adobe InDesign 12.1.0 and earlier versions Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-7886 Memory corruption in Adobe InDesign 11.4.1 and earlier, InDesign Server 11.0.0 and earlier Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-36004 Adobe InDesign CoolType out of bounds write vulnerability could lead to arbitrary stack manipulation High 8.8
• CVE-2021-21098 Adobe InDesign PCX file parsing out-of-bounds write vulnerability could lead to remote code execution High 8.8

All Adobe Indesign vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f8w9-xppp-jf8p.