According to the safety advisory published Midweek past times Adobe, its Photoshop CC software is vulnerable to ii critical retention corruption vulnerabilities, which could permit a remote aggressor to execute arbitrary code inwards the context of the targeted user.
The vulnerabilities, identified equally CVE-2018-12810 in addition to CVE-2018-12811, touching on Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 version 19.1.5 in addition to before 19.x versions, equally good equally Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 version 18.1.5 in addition to before 18.x versions.
The critical safety flaws were discovered in addition to reported past times Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs, in addition to convey at in ane trial been addressed past times Adobe amongst the unloose of Photoshop CC versions 19.1.6 in addition to 18.1.6.
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It should last noted that these RCE vulnerabilities were non operate of August 2018 safety acre updates released past times the companionship terminal calendar week to address a full of xi safety flaws inwards its Flash Player, Acrobat in addition to Reader, Experience Manager, in addition to Creative Cloud.
However, solely ii of the safety bugs patched inwards this month's update were deemed critical inwards severity, piece none of the flaws convey been exploited inwards the wild.
Although the newly patched RCE flaws convey been assigned a "critical" severity rating, they convey been given a priority rating of 3, which too suggests that the flaws convey non been targeted past times malicious actors inwards the wild.
More details well-nigh the critical RCE vulnerabilities are non available at the moment.
However, users in addition to administrators using Adobe Photoshop CC software are strongly recommended to download in addition to install the latest safety patches equally shortly equally possible.
