Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-47076

Memory Safety in Adobe Indesign 17.0 – 17.4.2

Published
13 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0030 23th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-47076 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Adobe Indesign. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 23th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Adobe InDesign versions 19.0 (and earlier) and 17.4.2 (and earlier) are affected by a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this…

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issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

adobe
indesign
19.0 · 17.0 — 17.4.2

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices (static analysis, code review, safe coding standards) directly prevent NULL dereference bugs during development.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing can detect NULL dereference defects before release.

prevents

Secure SDLC mandates defensive coding practices that can prevent NULL dereferences.

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Application security requirements can specify input validation and pointer-safety rules.

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Secure architecture principles encourage defensive design that avoids unsafe pointer use.

prevents

Secure coding standards directly require NULL-pointer checks and safe dereference patterns.

References