Adobe Fixes Critical Creative Cloud, Adobe Connect Vulnerabilities

Adobe has released security updates that fix vulnerabilities in Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop, Framemaker, and Connect. 

In total, the company fixed eight vulnerabilities today, with the majority of them rated as Critical as they allow arbitrary code execution.

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop has the greatest amount of critical updates of the products fixed today, with two allowing code execution and the third leading to privilege escalation.

Code execution bugs are the most serious as they could allow attackers to execute Windows commands, including installing malware or taking over the computer.

In total, Adobe fixed the following vulnerability in their products today:

• 1 Adobe Framemaker code execution vulnerability
• 3 critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop
• 4 vulnerabilities in Adobe Connect

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Adobe advises customers using vulnerable products to update to the latest versions as soon as possible to block attacks that could lead to successful exploitation of unpatched installations.

In most cases, users can update their software by using the auto-update feature of the product using the following steps:

• By going to Help > Check for Updates.
• The full update installers can be downloaded from Adobe’s Download Center.
• Let the products update automatically, without requiring user intervention, when updates are detected.

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If you cannot perform the update within your application, please download the latest version and perform an in-place upgrade.