CVE-2025-54230 Adobe Framemaker | Use After Free (CWE-416)

What is CVE-2025-54230?

CVE-2025-54230 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Adobe Framemaker, published on 12 Aug 2025. 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 Framemaker versions 2020.8, 2022.6 and earlier are affected by a Use After Free 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 file.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54230?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Framemaker.

How do I fix CVE-2025-54230?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54230 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2025-54230 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54230 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Framemaker

• CVE-2020-3740 Memory corruption in Adobe Framemaker Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-9634 Memory corruption in Adobe Framemaker High 8.8
• CVE-2020-9635 Memory corruption in Adobe Framemaker High 8.8
• CVE-2020-9636 Memory corruption in Adobe Framemaker High 8.8
• CVE-2020-3720 Memory corruption in Adobe Framemaker High 8.8

All Adobe Framemaker vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-f2cg-mh3r-wpw7.