CVE-2025-54255 Acrobat Reader | Violation of Secure Design Principles (CWE-657)

What is CVE-2025-54255?

CVE-2025-54255 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 9 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-657

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54255?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Dc, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Reader Dc.

How do I fix CVE-2025-54255?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54255 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-54255 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54255 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qf3h-3jpx-7vjg.