CVE-2025-54242: adobe premiere_pro Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-54242 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability in adobe premiere_pro. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 09-09-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 26-02-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Premiere Pro versions 25.3, 24.6.5 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, and scope is unchanged.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.