CVE-2025-54281: adobe adobe framemaker Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-54281 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability in adobe adobe framemaker. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 14-10-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 26-02-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Adobe Framemaker versions 2020.9, 2022.7 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.

• 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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.