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Adobe Critical Security Updates December 2021

Adobe Critical Security Updates December 2021

Adobe security update December 2021, they have released security updates providing fixes for 28 critical vulnerabilities in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, etc. A total of 60 security vulnerabilities have been patched in this release using a patch manager. However, most of these vulner...

Dec 15, 2021By Gourav Shrivastava3 min read

Adobe security update December 2021, they have released security updates providing fixes for 28 critical vulnerabilities in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, etc. A total of 60 security vulnerabilities have been patched in this release using a patch manager. However, most of these vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution on successful exploitation. Moreover, these flaws mainly affect Windows and macOS platforms.

In Adobe Security Update December 2021, Adobe Premiere Rush received fixes for 11 critical vulnerabilities. Adobe Experience Manager received fixes for 6 critical vulnerabilities, Adobe Dimension received fixes for 3 critical vulnerabilities, Adobe Media Encounter, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Photoshop received fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, Adobe Prelude and Adobe Premiere Pro received fixes for one critical vulnerability each.

Adobe Security Bulletin Summary for December 2021

Product: Adobe Premiere RushAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-101Severity: Critical and ImportantAffected Version: 1.5.16 and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary code execution, Application denial-of-service, and Privilege escalation

Product: Adobe Experience ManagerAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-103Severity: Critical and ImportantAffected Version: AEM Cloud Service (CS), 6.5.10.0 and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary code execution and Security feature bypass

Product: Adobe ConnectAdvisory/CVEs:APSB21-112Severity:  ImportantAffected Version: 11.3 and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary file system write

Product: Adobe PhotoshopAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-113Severity:  Critical and ImportantAffected Version: Photoshop 2021 – 22.5.3 and earlier version, Photoshop 2022 – 23.0.2 and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary code execution and Memory leak

Product: Adobe PreludeAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-114Severity:  Critical and ImportantAffected Version: 22.0  and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary code execution and Privilege escalation

Some more products of Adobe Update December 2021

Product: Adobe After EffectsAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-115Severity:  Critical, Important, and ModerateAffected Version: Adobe After Effects – 22.0 and  earlier versions, Adobe After Effects – 18.4.2 and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary code execution and Privilege escalation

Product: Adobe  DimensionAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-116Severity:  Critical, Important, and ModerateAffected Version: 3.4.3 and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary code execution and Privilege escalation

Product: Adobe Premiere ProAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-117Severity:  Critical and ModerateAffected Version: Adobe Premiere Pro – 22.0 and earlier versions, Adobe Premiere Pro – 15.4.2 and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary code execution and Privilege escalation

Product: Adobe Media EncoderAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-118Severity:  Critical and ModerateAffected Version: Adobe Media Encoder – 22.0 and earlier versions, Adobe Media Encoder – 15.4.2 and earlier versionsImpact: Arbitrary code execution and Privilege escalation

Product: Adobe LightroomAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-119Severity:  ImportantAffected Version: 4.4 and earlier versionsImpact: Privelege escalation

Product: Adobe AuditionAdvisory/CVEs: APSB21-121Severity:  ModerateAffected Version: Adobe Audition – 22.0 and earlier versions, Adobe Audition – 14.4 and earlier versionsImpact: Privelege escalation

This is Adobe Security Update December 2021

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