Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe Illustrator | APSB21-42

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

ASPB21-42 

July 13, 2021      

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Illustrator 2021. This update resolves  multiple  critical  and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of current user.                

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Illustrator 2021

25.2.3  and earlier versions   

Windows

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following  priority ratings  and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app's update mechanism.  For more information, please reference this help page.

Product

Version

Platform

Priority

Availability

Illustrator 2021    

25.3

Windows and macOS

3

Illustrator 2020    

24.3.2

Windows and macOS

3

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVSS base score 

CVE Numbers

Use After Free

(CWE-416)

Arbitrary file system read  

Important 

3.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE-2021-28593

CVE-2021-36008

Out-of-bounds write   

(CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution  

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-28591

CVE-2021-28592

Out-of-bounds Read

(CWE-125)

Arbitrary file system read  

Important 

3.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE-2021-36010

Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer

(CWE-788)

Arbitrary code execution  

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-36009

OS Command Injection (CWE-78)

Arbitrary code execution  

Critical

8.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-36011

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following researchers for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:   

  • Mat Powell (@mrpowell) & Joshua Smith (@kernelsmith) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (CVE-2021-28591, CVE-2021-28592, CVE-2021-28593)
  • Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (CVE-2021-36010, CVE-2021-36009, CVE-2021-36008)  
  • Taylor Leach of Apple (CVE-2021-36011)

 

Revisions

July 19, 2021: Inlcuded details about CVE-2021-36010, CVE-2021-36009, CVE-2021-36008.

July 20, 2021: Included details about CVE-2021-36011

September 30, 2021: Added additional Solution row for N-1 version.


For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com

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