Adobe addresses five issues in ColdFusion, After Effects, Digital Editions

Adobe has addressed five minor vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions products.

Adobe has addressed five vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions products.

“Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe ColdFusion (APSB20-18), Adobe After Effects (APSB20-21) and Digital Editions (APSB20-23). Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions using the instructions referenced in the bulletin.” reads the advisory published by Adobe.

Three important severity vulnerabilities affect ColdFusion versions 2016 and 2018, the issues could respectively lead to information disclosure (CVE-2020-3767), privilege escalation (CVE-2020-3768), or a denial-of-service (CVE-2020-3796).

The vulnerabilities have been reported by  Jason Troy (CVE-2020-3767), Nuttakorn Tungpoonsup and Ammarit Thongthua from Secure D Center Research Team, Secure D Center Co.,Ltd. And Sittikorn Sangrattanapitak – Cybersecurity Researcher (CVE-2020-3768), and Raki Ben Hamouda (CVE-2020-3796).

The company also addressed an important out-of-bounds read vulnerability in After Effects that could lead to information disclosure in the context of the current user.

The flaw tracked as CVE-2020-3809, was reported by Matt Powell of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative for reporting.

Last issue fixed by the IT firm affects Digital Editions product, it is an important information disclosure flaw related to file enumeration.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-3798, has been reported by Jason Troy, Raki Ben Hamouda, and researchers from imec-DistriNet at KU Leuven, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, and Secure D.

None of these vulnerabilities has been exploited in attacks in the wild, the company believes that it is unlikely that attackers could exploit it soon.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – Patch Tuesday, hacking)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.