Adobe Releases Patches for ‘Likely Exploitable’ Critical Vulnerabilities

Adobe today released^[1]
updates for four of its widely used software—including Adobe
Acrobat and Reader, Photoshop CC, ColdFusion, and Brackets—to patch
a total of 25 new security vulnerabilities.

Seventeen of these flaws have been rated as critical in
severity, with most of them carrying high priority patches,
indicating that the vulnerabilities are more likely to be used in
real-world attacks, but there are currently no known exploits in
the wild.

The software update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and
macOS operating systems addresses a total of 21 security
vulnerabilities, 14 of which are critical, and rest are important
in severity.

Upon successful exploitation, all critical vulnerabilities in
Adobe Acrobat and Reader software lead to arbitrary code execution
attacks, allowing attackers to take complete control of targeted
systems.

Adobe Photoshop CC for Windows and macOS contains patches for
two critical arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities that were
discovered and reported to the company by Honggang Ren of
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

The last two flaws the company patched this month affect
Brackets, a source code editor, and ColdFusion, a commercial rapid
web application development platform by Adobe.

Adobe ColdFusion update comes with a security patch for an
important privilege escalation bug, which occurs due to insecure
inherited permissions of the default installation directory.

The company has released updated versions for all four
vulnerable software for each impacted platform that users should
install immediately to protect their systems and businesses from
cyber-attacks.

If your system hasn’t yet detected the availability of the new
update automatically, you should manually install the update by
choosing “Help → Check for Updates” in your Adobe software.