Adobe has finally released October 2021 security updates providing fixes for 66 critical vulnerabilities in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, etc. A total of 92 security vulnerabilities have been finally patched in this release. However most of these detected vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution on successful exploitation. These flaws mainly affect Windows and macOS platforms. Moreover the vulnerability in Adobe XMP Toolkit SDK affects all platforms. The issues were finally reported by some members of the Topsec Alpha Team using a vulnerability scanning tool.
Therefore, Adobe After Effects, Bridge, and Animate received fixes for 9 critical vulnerabilities each. Then, adobe Character Animator and Premiere Pro received fixes for 3 critical vulnerabilities each. Furthermore, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop received fixes for 2 critical vulnerabilities each and Adobe Media Encoder and XMP Toolkit SDK received fixes for 4 critical vulnerabilities each. Similarly, Adobe Audition received fixes for six critical vulnerabilities. Initially Adobe Prelude received fixes for seven critical vulnerabilities. Adobe Lightroom Classic finally received fixes for one critical vulnerability. Finally, adobe Premiere Elements received fixes for five critical vulnerabilities through Adobe Security Updates. A patch management solution is essential here to fix the vulnerabilities.
Adobe Security Update Summary for October 2021
Product Information:
1)Product: Adobe After Effects
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-79
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 18.4.1 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution, Application denial-of-service
2)Product: Adobe Audition
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-92
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 14.4 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution, Application denial of service
3)Product: Adobe Bridge
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-94
Severity: Critical
Affected Version: 11.1.1 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution and Memory leak
4)Product: Adobe Character Animator
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-95
Severity: Critical, Important, and Moderate
Affected Version: 4.4 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution and file service reads, privilege escalation, and Application denial of service
5)Product: Adobe Prelude
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-96
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 10.1 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution, Memory leak, and Application denial of service
6)Product: Adobe Lightroom Classic
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-97
Severity: Critical
Affected Version: 10.3 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution
7)Product: Adobe Illustrator
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-98
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 25.4.1 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution, Memory leak, and Application denial of service
8)Product: Adobe Media Encoder
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-99
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 15.4.1 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution, Memory leak, and Application denial of service
9)Product: Adobe Premiere Pro
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-100
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 15.4.1 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, and Application denial of service
10)Product: Adobe Animate
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-105
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 21.0.9 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation
11)Product: Adobe Premiere Elements
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-106
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 2021 [build 19.0 (20210809.daily.2242976) and earlier versions.]
Impact: Arbitrary code execution, Memory leak, and Application denial of service
12)Product: Adobe InDesign
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-107
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 16.4 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution and Application denial of service
13)Product: Adobe XMP Toolkit SDK
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-108
Severity: Critical and Important
Affected Version: 2021.07 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution and Application denial of service
14)Product: Adobe Photoshop
Advisory/CVEs: APSB21-109
Severity: Critical and Moderate
Affected Version: 22.5.1 and earlier versions
Impact: Arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation
In conclusion, the Adobe Security Updates fixed all these issues.
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