CVE-2025-54255
Adobe Acrobat 24.0.0 – 24.001.30264
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NSummary
CVE-2025-54255 is a medium-severity Violation of Secure Design Principles (CWE-657) vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat. Its CVSS base score is 4.0 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 19th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-5 (Separation of Duties) and AC-6 (Least Privilege) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-27463
Vulnerability Data
Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30254, 20.005.30774, 25.001.20672 and earlier are affected by a Violation of Secure Design Principles vulnerability that could result in a security feature bypass impacting integrity. An attacker does not have to be authenticated. Exploitation of this issue…
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does not require user interaction, and scope is unchanged.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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- 8 hardening rules · 5 OS baselines
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Explicitly requires application of security and privacy engineering principles throughout the lifecycle, structurally preventing their violation.
Separation of duties is a core secure design principle whose mandated implementation directly stops the violation from occurring.
Least privilege is a fundamental secure design principle whose enforcement prevents the violation from being introduced.
Mandates separation of user and system functionality, a classic secure design principle that stops the violation at design time.
Requires isolation of security functions, directly preventing violation of that established design principle.
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.
Directly mandates integration of secure development practices including design principles across the SDLC.
Establishes risk-management policy that can embed secure design expectations at the organizational level.
Explicitly requires incorporating least privilege, one key secure design principle.
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.
Secure system architecture and engineering principles are the explicit embodiment of the secure design principles violated by CWE-657.
A secure development life cycle directly requires adherence to established secure design principles.
Security testing can detect violations of secure design principles before release.
Embedding security in project management helps enforce secure design principles from the outset.
Secure coding practices help realize secure design principles at implementation time.
Hardening callouts derived
Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).
Ubuntu 22.04 (1 rule)
- V-260559 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must ensure only users who need access to security functions are part of sudo group. prevents CWE-657
Ubuntu 24.04 (1 rule)
- V-270748 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS must ensure only users who need access to security functions are part of sudo group. prevents CWE-657
Windows Server 2016 (2 rules)
- V-224992 Domain Controller PKI certificates must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
- V-224993 PKI certificates associated with user accounts must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
Windows Server 2019 (2 rules)
- V-205646 Windows Server 2019 domain Controller PKI certificates must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
- V-205647 Windows Server 2019 PKI certificates associated with user accounts must be issued by a DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
Windows Server 2022 (2 rules)
- V-254413 Windows Server 2022 domain Controller PKI certificates must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
- V-254414 Windows Server 2022 PKI certificates associated with user accounts must be issued by a DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657