Adobe Products Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution

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Fortify Security Team

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Sep 14, 2021

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution.

Adobe XMP Toolkit SDK is a development kit for Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform.
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements?is a graphics editor.
Adobe Experience Manager is a content management solution for building websites, mobile apps, and forms.
Adobe Genuine Service is a service that periodically verifies whether Adobe apps on your machine are genuine and notifies you if they are not.
Adobe Digital Editions is an e-book reader software program.
Adobe Premiere and Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing software.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a cloud service provided by Adobe where its software can be accessed all in one place.
Adobe ColdFusion is a web application development platform.
Adobe Framemaker is a document processing software used to write and edit large or complex documents.
Adobe InDesign is an industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media.
Adobe SVG Native viewer is a library that parses and renders SVG Native documents.
Adobe InCopy is a professional word processor.
Acrobat and Reader is a family of application software and Web services mainly used to create, view, and edit PDF documents.

Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

THREAT INTELLIGENCE: There are currently no reports of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.

SYSTEMS AFFECTED:

Adobe XMP-Toolkit-SDK 2021.07 and earlier versions
Photoshop 2020 21.2.11 and earlier versions
Photoshop 2021 22.5 and earlier versions
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.5.9.0 and earlier versions
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Cloud Service
Adobe Genuine Service 7.3 and earlier versions
Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.11.187646 and below
Adobe Premiere Elements 2021 [build 19.0 (20210127.daily.2235820) and earlier]
Photoshop Elements 2021 [build 19.0 (20210304.m.156367) and earlier]
Creative Cloud Desktop Application 5.4 and earlier version
ColdFusion 2018 Update 11 and earlier versions
ColdFusion 2021 Version 1 and earlier versions
Adobe Framemaker 2019 Update 8 and earlier
Adobe Framemaker 2020 Release Update 2 and earlier
Adobe InDesign 16.3.2 and earlier versions for macOS
Adobe InDesign 16.3 and earlier versions for Windows
Adobe SVG-Native-Viewer https://github.com/adobe/svg-native-viewer/commit/8182d14dfad5d1e10f53ed830328d7d9a3cfa96d and earlier versions for Linux
Adobe InCopy 16.3.1 and earlier versions for macOS
Adobe InCopy 16.3 and earlier versions for Windows
Adobe Premiere Pro 15.4 and earlier versions
Acrobat DC 2021.005.20060 and earlier versions for Windows
Acrobat Reader DC 2021.005.20060 and earlier versions for Windows
Acrobat DC 2021.005.20058 and earlier versions for macOS
Acrobat Reader DC 2021.005.20058 and earlier versions for macOS
Acrobat 2020 2020.004.30006 and earlier versions
Acrobat Reader 2020 2020.004.30006 and earlier versions
Acrobat 2017 2017.011.30199 and earlier versions
Acrobat Reader 2017 2017.011.30199 and earlier versions

RISK:

Government:

Large and medium government entities: Medium
Small government entities: Medium

Businesses:

Large and medium business entities: Medium
Small business entities: Medium

Home users: Low

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Details of these vulnerabilities are as follows:
Adobe XMP-Toolkit-SDK

Out-of-bounds Read, which could allow for Arbitrary file system read. (CVE-2021-40716)

Adobe Photoshop 2020 and 2021

Buffer Overflow, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-40709)

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Cross-site Scripting (XSS), which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-40711)
Improper Input Validation, which could allow for Application denial-of-service. (CVE-2021-40712)
Improper Certificate Validation, which could allow for Security feature bypass. (CVE-2021-40713)
Cross-site Scripting (XSS), which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-40714)

Adobe?Genuine Service

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions, which could allow for Privilege Escalation. (CVE-2021-40708)

Adobe Digital Editions

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions, which could allow for Privilege Escalation. (CVE-2021-39828)
Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions, which could allow for Arbitrary file system write. (CVE-2021-39827)
OS Command Injection, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39826)

Adobe Premiere?Elements

Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39824, CVE-2021-40701, CVE-2021-40700, CVE-2021-40703, CVE-2021-40702)

Adobe Photoshop?Elements

Out-of-bounds Write, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39825)

Creative Cloud Desktop Application

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions, which could allow for Arbitrary file system write. (CVE-2021-28613)

Adobe ColdFusion

Use of Inherently Dangerous Function which could allow for Security feature bypass?. (CVE-2021-40698)
Improper Access Control which could allow for Security feature bypass. (CVE-2021-40699)

Adobe Framemaker

Use After Free, which could allow for Arbitrary file system read. (CVE-2021-39835, CVE-2021-39833, CVE-2021-39834)
Out-of-bounds Read, which could allow for Arbitrary file system read. (CVE-2021-40697)
Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39832, CVE-2021-39830)
Out-of-bounds Write, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39829, CVE-2021-39831)

Adobe InDesign

Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39820)
Out-of-bounds Read, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39821, CVE-2021-39822)

Adobe SVG-Native-Viewer

Heap-based Buffer Overflow, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39823)

Adobe InCopy

Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer, which could allow for Arbitrary file system write. (CVE-2021-39819)
Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39818)

Adobe Premiere Pro

Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer, which could allow for Arbitrary Code Execution. (CVE-2021-40710, CVE-2021-40715)

Adobe Acrobat and Reader

Type Confusion, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39841)
Heap-based Buffer Overflow, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39863)
Information Exposure, which could allow for Arbitrary file system read. (CVE-2021-39857, CVE-2021-39856, CVE-2021-39855)
Out-of-bounds Read, which could allow for a Memory leak. (CVE-2021-39844, CVE-2021-39861)
Out-of-bounds Read, which could allow for Arbitrary file system read. (CVE-2021-39858)
Out-of-bounds Write, which could allow for a Memory leak. (CVE-2021-39843)
Stack-based Buffer Overflow, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39846, CVE-2021-39845)
Uncontrolled Search Path Element, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-35982)
Use After Free, which could allow for Arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2021-39859, CVE-2021-39840, CVE-2021-39842, CVE-2021-39839, CVE-2021-39838, CVE-2021-39837, CVE-2021-39836)
NULL Pointer Dereference, which could allow for a Memory leak. (CVE-2021-39860)
NULL Pointer Dereference, which could allow for Application denial-of-service. (CVE-2021-39852, CVE-2021-39854, CVE-2021-39853, CVE-2021-39850, CVE-2021-39849, CVE-2021-39851)

Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

We recommend the following actions be taken:

Install the updates provided by Adobe immediately after appropriate testing.
Run all software as a non-privileged user (one without administrative privileges) to diminish the effects of a successful attack.
Remind users not to visit un-trusted websites or follow links provided by unknown or un-trusted sources.
Inform and educate users regarding the threats posed by hypertext links contained in emails or attachments especially from un-trusted sources.
Apply the Principle of Least Privilege to all systems and services.

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