Adobe Security Bulletin

Security update available for Adobe Photoshop | APSB24-101

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB24-101

December 10,  2024     

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Photoshop for Windows and macOS. This update resolves a critical vulnerability.  Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in these updates.

Affected Versions

Product

Affected version

Platform

Photoshop 2025

26.0 and earlier versions 

Windows and macOS

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

Updated versions

Platform

Priority

Photoshop 2025

26.1

Windows and macOS

3

Note:

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

CVSS base score 

CVE Number

Use After Free (CWE-416)

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-2024-52997

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following researcher for reporting this issue and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:   

  • Francis Provencher (prl) - CVE-2024-52997

NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check out https://hackerone.com/adobe

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


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

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