Read more: Adobe allows users to share Photoshop, Illustrator projects with collaboratorsĪdobe says that while administrators will be able to use their preferred methods of updating managed environments, user-installed versions of Adobe Acrobat and Reader are set to update automatically as soon as a new update is detected. This makes it absolutely essential for users of the software to upgrade their installations as quickly as possible, as leaving the software unpatched with known security flaws is quite dangerous.
Perhaps more worryingly, Adobe also revealed that it has received a report that one of the vulnerabilities ( CVE-2021-28550) was being actively used to target Adobe Reader users on Windows in “limited attacks”. Stating that the security updates for both Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS were released to address multiple critical and important software vulnerabilities, the company said that if a malicious actor was able to exploit the flaws, it could grant them the ability to execute arbitrary code (read: dangerous commands) on the current user’s system.
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