THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-9727
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-9727

Indesign vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in InDesign 15.1.1 (and earlier versions). Insecure handling of a malicious indd file could be abused to cause an out-of-bounds memory access, potentially resulting in code execution in the context of the current user.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Indesign
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-09-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-9727

  • Confirm whether Adobe Indesign is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-9727.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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