Adobe released software updates yesterday to cover a total of 9 new security vulnerabilities in two of its most widely used applications, Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Illustrator.
This is the first Patch Tuesday for the year 2020 and one of the lighter patches for users by Adobe. Additionally, none of the security vulnerabilities covered this month have been made public by the company.
Five of the nine security vulnerabilities are, according to Fortinet Forgguard Labs researcher Mr. Honggang Ren, "critical" in severity and affect Adobe Illustrator CC 24.0 and earlier versions.
According to a tip posted by Adobe, all five critical issues in Adobe Illustrator software are memory corruption errors, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on targeted systems.
The other 4 security vulnerabilities affect Adobe Experience Manager (a complete content management solution for building web pages, mobile applications, and forms) none of which are critical but should be fixed at the earliest opportunity.
This is also because Adobe has marked security updates for Adobe Experience Manager with a score prioritys 2, which means that similar flaws have been observed in the past, but so far the company has not found any evidence of exploiting these vulnerabilities.
Finally, Adobe today released Illustrator CC 2019 version 24.0.2 for the functional Windows system and patches for Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5.
Adobe recommends that end users and administrators install the latest security updates as soon as possible to protect systems and businesses them from potential cyber attacks.
