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

> An unauthenticated attacker can bypass security features in Acrobat Reader to compromise integrity without user interaction.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 1 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qf3h-3jpx-7vjg

## 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 (Violation of Secure Design Principles)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54255?

It affects 4 products.


Products: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-28550/): Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free (critical 9.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-21017](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-21017/): Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2014-0546](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-0546/): Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2014-0496](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-0496/): Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-3346](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-3346/): Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-54255 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: Adobe Acrobat. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54255/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54255/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54255
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54255
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54255

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54255/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.