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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-9731

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in InDesign 15.1.1 (and earlier versions).

HIGH 7.8EPSS 11.3%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
11.29% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-788, CWE-787
Affected
adobe/indesign
Source
psirt@adobe.com
EPSS trend
0%8%15%26 October 2026: 11.29%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 11.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.