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Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Products- December 2021

Issued: 
Monday, 27 December, 2021
Last Revision: 
Monday, 27 December, 2021
Vendor: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

Adobe has issued security update for December 2021, which address 60 vulnerabilities in 11 products, with 28 classified as Critical.  

 

Some notable products that are patched in December security update includes- Adobe Audition, Lightroom, Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, Prelude, Dimension, After Effects, Photoshop, Connect, Experience Manager, and Premiere Rush. 

 

Adobe has fixed problem of cross-site scripting (XSS), arbitrary code execution, remote code execution, and privilege escalation. 

 

 

 

Product(s)

CVE/Vulnerability 

Description

Adobe

Premiere Rush

CVE-2021-40783, CVE-2021-40784, CVE-2021-43021, CVE-202143022, CVE-2021-43023, CVE-2021-43024, CVE-2021-43025, CVE-2021-43026, CVE-2021-43028, CVE-2021-43029, CVE-2021-43747, CVE-2021-43746

Arbitrary code execution

Adobe

Premiere Rush

CVE-2021-43030

Privilege escalation

Adobe

Premiere Rush

CVE-2021-43748, CVE-2021-43749, CVE-2021-43750

Denial-ofservice

Adobe

Experience

Manager

CVE-2021-43761, CVE-2021-43764, CVE-2021-40722, CVE-202143765, CVE-2021-44176, CVE-2021-44177, CVE-2021-44178

Arbitrary code execution

Adobe

Experience

Manager

CVE-2021-43762

Security feature bypass

Adobe Connect

CVE-2021-43014

Arbitrary file system write

Adobe

Photoshop

CVE-2021-44184, CVE-2021-43018

Arbitrary code execution

Adobe

Photoshop

CVE-2021-43020

Memory

leak

Adobe Prelude

CVE-2021-43754

Arbitrary code execution

Adobe Prelude

CVE-2021-44696

Privilege escalation

Adobe After

Effects

CVE-2021-43755, CVE-2021-44188

Arbitrary code execution

Adobe After

Effects

CVE-2021-44189, CVE-2021-44190, CVE-2021-44191, CVE-202144192, CVE-2021-44193, CVE-2021-44194, CVE-2021-44195, CVE-

2021-43027

Privilege escalation

Adobe

Dimension

CVE-2021-43763, 

Privilege escalation

Adobe

Dimension

CVE-2021-44179, CVE-2021-44180, CVE-2021-44181, CVE-202144182, CVE-2021-44183

Arbitrary code execution

Adobe

Premiere Pro

CVE-2021-43751, CVE-2021-40791, CVE-2021-40795, CVE-202142265, CVE-2021-40790

Privilege escalation

Adobe Media Encoder

CVE-2021-43756, CVE-2021-43757, CVE-2021-43758, CVE-202143759, CVE-2021-43760

Arbitrary code execution

Adobe

Lightroom

CVE-2021-43753, CVE-2021-44697, CVE-2021-44698, CVE-202144699

Privilege escalation

 

 

                                                                                              Table 1: Vulnerability details 

 

 

 

Affected Product(s)

             Version

Platform

Adobe Premiere Rush

1.5.16  and earlier versions       

Windows

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

AEM Cloud Service (CS) and  6.5.10.0 and earlier versions

All

 

Adobe Connect

11.3  and earlier versions            

All

Photoshop 2021

22.5.3 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Photoshop 2022

23.0.2 and earlier versions

Windows and macOS

Adobe Prelude 

22.0  and earlier versions     

Windows

Adobe After Effects

22.0 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Adobe After Effects

18.4.2 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Adobe Dimension

3.4.3 and earlier versions  

    

Windows and macOS 

Adobe Premiere Pro 

22.0 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Adobe Premiere Pro 

15.4.2 and earlier versions     

Windows and macOS

Adobe Media Encoder

Adobe Media Encoder

Adobe Media Encoder

22.0 and earlier versions

22.0 and earlier versions

22.0 and earlier versions

Lightroom 

4.4 and earlier versions      

Windows

Adobe Audition

22.0  and earlier versions          

Windows and macOS

Adobe Audition

14.4  and earlier versions          

Windows and macOS

 

 

                                                                                                Table 2: Vulnerable versions

Recommendation: 

Organizations are strongly encouraged to apply appropriate update as soon as possible.