Adobe addresses over 60 vulnerabilities in multiple products

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2021

Adobe warns of threat actors that could exploit critical vulnerabilities in multiple products running on Windows and macOS systems.

Adobe has issued critical warnings for more than 60 vulnerabilities in multiple products running on Windows and macOS machines.

The vulnerabilities can be exploited by threat actors for code execution, privilege escalation and denial-of-service attacks.

The company said it was not aware of in-the-wild exploitation of any of the documented vulnerabilities.

Adobe has addressed three  critical  and important vulnerabilities in Photoshop for Windows and macOS. An attacker could trigger these flaws for arbitrary code execution and memory leak in the context of the current user.   

Below are the vulnerability details:

Vulnerability CategoryVulnerability ImpactSeverityCVSS base score CVSS vectorCVE Number
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)Arbitrary code executionCritical7.8  CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
 
CVE-2021-43018
 
Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer (CWE-788)Memory LeakImportant5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2021-43020
Buffer Overflow (CWE-120)Arbitrary code executionCritical7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-44184

CVE-2021-43018 has been reported by Mat Powell working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, while CVE-2021-43020 and CVE-2021-44184 have been reported by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

Adobe also fixed multiple code execution vulnerabilities in the Adobe Experience Manager:

Vulnerability Category
Vulnerability Impact
Severity
CVSS base score CVSS vectorCVE Number 
Cross-site Scripting (XSS)(CWE-79)Arbitrary code executionCritical8.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2021-43761
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (‘XXE’) (CWE-611)Arbitrary code executionCritical9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-40722
Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)Security feature bypassImportant6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2021-43762
 
Cross-site Scripting (XSS)(CWE-79)Arbitrary code executionCritical8.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-43764
Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)Arbitrary code executionCritical8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVE-2021-43765
 
Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)Arbitrary code executionCritical8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCVE-2021-44176
Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)Arbitrary code executionCritical8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCVE-2021-44177
 
Cross-site Scripting (Reflected XSS) (CWE-79)Arbitrary code executionImportant5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2021-44178

The good news is that Adobe’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of attacks in the wild exploring these vulnerabilities.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Adobe)

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