Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop

Adobe has addressed two critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Photoshop image manipulation software.

Adobe released security updates to address two critical security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-36065 and CVE-2021-36066, affecting the popular image manipulation software Photoshop.

The flaws affect versions of the software for both Windows and macOS, their exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.                    

“Adobe has released updates for Photoshop for Windows and macOS. These updates resolve multiple critical vulnerabilities.  Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.” reads the advisory.                

The flaws affect Photoshop 2020 21.2.10 and earlier versions and Photoshop 2021 22.4.3  and earlier versions.   

The CVE-2021-36065 is a Heap-based Buffer Overflow while the CVE-2021-36066 is an Out-of-bounds Write issue, both rated with a CVSS score of 7.8.

The vulnerabilities have been reported by:

Yongjun Liu of nsfocus security team (liuyongjun) (CVE-2021-36065)
Francis Provencher {PRL} working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative ( CVE-2021-36066)

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Pierluigi Paganini

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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”.