Adobe Patch Tuesday fixed critical vulnerabilities in Magento, Acrobat and Reader

Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2024 addressed more than 30 vulnerabilities in multiple products, including critical issues.
Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates released by Adobe addressed over 30 vulnerabilities across various products, including critical issues.

The software maker warned of critical flaws in popular products such as Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source, Substance 3D Painter, and FrameMaker.

The company fixed 13 vulnerabilities in the Adobe Acrobat and Reader software, including arbitrary code execution, application denial of service and memory leak vulnerabilities.

“Adobe has released a security update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS. This update addresses critical and important vulnerabilities.” reads the advisory. “Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution, application denial-of-service, and memory leak.”

Below is the list of vulnerabilities addressed by the software vendor:

Vulnerability Category	Vulnerability Impact	Severity	CVSS base score	CVSS vector	CVE Number
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-2024-20726
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-2024-20727
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-2024-20728
Use After Free (CWE-416)	Arbitrary code execution	Important	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CVE-2024-20729
Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190)	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-2024-20730
Use After Free (CWE-416)	Arbitrary code execution	Critical	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CVE-2024-20731
Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)	Application denial-of-service	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CVE-2024-20733
Use After Free (CWE-416)	Memory leak	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CVE-2024-20734
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)	Memory leak	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CVE-2024-20735
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)	Memory leak	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CVE-2024-20736
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)	Memory leak	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CVE-2024-20747
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)	Memory leak	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CVE-2024-20748
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)	Memory leak	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CVE-2024-20749
Below is the list of vulnerabilities addressed by the software firm that impact Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source products:

Vulnerability Category	Vulnerability Impact	Severity	Authentication required to exploit?	Exploit requires admin privileges?	CVSS base score	CVSS vector	CVE number(s)
Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)	Arbitrary code execution	Critical	Yes	Yes	9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CVE-2024-20719
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (‘OS Command Injection’) (CWE-78)	Arbitrary code execution	Critical	Yes	Yes	9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CVE-2024-20720
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)	Application denial-of-service	Important	Yes	Yes	5.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	CVE-2024-20716
Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)	Arbitrary code execution	Important	Yes	Yes	5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	CVE-2024-20717
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352)	Security feature bypass	Moderate	Yes	No	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	CVE-2024-20718
According to the advisory, the above vulnerabilities can be exploited only by an authenticated attacker.

“Exploit requires admin privileges: The vulnerability is (or is not) only exploitable by an attacker with administrative privileges.” states the advisory.

The good news is that the software vendor is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting these vulnerabilities.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2024 resolved a total of 72 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days.

The vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; Azure; .NET Framework and ASP.NET; SQL Server; Windows Hyper-V; and Microsoft Dynamics.

Five vulnerabilities are rated Critical, 65 are rated Important, and two are rated Moderate in severity.