Adobe Security Bulletin
Security Updates Available for Adobe Lightroom | APSB20-51
Bulletin ID Date Published Priority
ASPB20-51
August 11, 2020     
3

Summary

Adobe has released updates for Adobe Lightroom Classic for Windows and macOS. This update addresses an important vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation in the context of the current user.  

Affected Versions

Product Version Platform
Lightroom Classic
9.2.0.10 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 Rating Availability
Lightroom Classic        
9.3
Windows and macOS 3 Download Center

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability Category Vulnerability Impact Severity CVE Numbers
Insecure Library Loading Privilege escalation

Important

CVE-2020-9724

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank Honggang Ren of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers.