"Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in ColdFusion, Adobe Commerce"

Adobe recently released security patches for 29 documented vulnerabilities across multiple enterprise-facing products and warned that hackers could exploit these bugs to take complete control of vulnerable machines.  Adobe warned the vulnerabilities could expose both Windows and macOS users to arbitrary code execution, arbitrary file system write, security feature bypass, and privilege escalation attacks.  The most urgent of the patches cover security defects in ColdFusion versions 2021 and 2018.  According to Adobe, a total of 13 ColdFusion flaws were fixed, including some carrying a CVSS 9.8/10 severity rating.  Adobe’s security response team also shipped a high-priority patch for the Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source software, warning that a critical-level bug could expose users to arbitrary code execution attacks.  The Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source flaw (CVE-2022-35698) is described as a cross-site scripting (stored XSS) bug with a CVSS 10/10 severity rating.  Adobe also addressed nine documented bugs in the Adobe Dimension product and warned that both Windows and macOS users are at risk of code execution and memory leak attacks.  The Adobe Dimension bulletin carries the maximum critical-level severity rating.  Adobe also released patches to cover a half-dozen flaws affecting the widely deployed Adobe Acrobat and Reader software.  The company noted that it was not aware of any in-the-wild attacks exploiting any of the documented vulnerabilities.

SecurityWeek reports: "Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in ColdFusion, Adobe Commerce"