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Adobe Critical Security Updates June 2021

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Adobe has finally released security updates providing fixes for 21 critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application, After Effects, Photoshop, Animate, RoboHelp Server, Acrobat, and Reader. A total of 41 security vulnerabilities have been finally patched in this release. Having a vulnerability scanning tool is essential here. Therefore, most of these vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution on successful exploitation. Therefore, these flaws affect Windows and macOS. However, there were no reports of any of the above vulnerabilities being actively exploited. Additionally Adobe After Effects received fixes for a total of 15 security flaws, out of which 8 were critical. Whereas Animate consisted of 4 critical vulnerabilities. Acrobat and Reader fixed 5 critical flaws. Photoshop received fixes for 2 critical flaws. Moreover Creative Cloud and RoboHelp Server consisted of 1 critical vulnerability each. Also, a patch management tool can patch these vulnerabilities.


Adobe Security Updates Bulletin Summary for June 2021

1.Product: Adobe Connect
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-36, CVE-2021-28579
Severity: Important
Impact: Privilege escalation


2.Product: Adobe Acrobat and Reader
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-37, CVE-2021-28552, CVE-2021-28631, CVE-2021-28632, CVE-2021-28554, CVE-2021-28551
Severity: Critical
Impact: Arbitrary code execution


3.Product: Adobe Photoshop
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-38, CVE-2021-28624, CVE-2021-28582
Severity: Critical
Impact: Arbitrary code execution


4.Product: Adobe Experience Manager
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-39, CVE-2021-28625, CVE-2021-28626, CVE-2021-28627, CVE-2021-28628
Severity: Critical
Impact: Arbitrary code execution, Application denial-of-service, Security feature bypass


5.Product: Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-41, CVE-2021-28633, CVE-2021-28594
Severity: Critical
Impact: Arbitrary file system write, Arbitrary code execution


6.Product: Adobe RoboHelp Server
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-44, CVE-2021-28588
Severity: Critical
Impact: Arbitrary code execution


7.Product: Adobe Photoshop Elements
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-46, CVE-2021-28597
Severity: Important
Impact: Privilege escalation


8.Product: Adobe Premiere Elements
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-47, CVE-2021-28623
Severity: Important
Impact: Privilege escalation


9.Product: Adobe After Effects
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-49, CVE-2021-28600, CVE-2021-28601, CVE-2021-28602, CVE-2021-28605, CVE-2021-28607, CVE-2021-28603, CVE-2021-28604, CVE-2021-28608, CVE-2021-28610, CVE-2021-28606, CVE-2021-28609, CVE-2021-28615, CVE-2021-28611, CVE-2021-28612, CVE-2021-28614, CVE-2021-28616
Severity: Critical
Impact: Privilege escalation, Application denial-of-service, Arbitrary file system read, Memory leak, Arbitrary Code Execution


10.Product: Adobe Animate
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-50, CVE-2021-28630, CVE-2021-28619, CVE-2021-28617, CVE-2021-28618, CVE-2021-28621, CVE-2021-28620, CVE-2021-28629, CVE-2021-28622
Severity: Critical
Impact: Arbitrary file system read, Memory leak, Information Disclosure, Arbitrary code execution

In conclusion, these were the Adobe Security Updates of June 2021.


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