Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe Illustrator | APSB21-02

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

ASPB21-02 

January 12, 2021      

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Illustrator 2020. This update resolves a critical vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of current user.       

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Illustrator 2020

25.0  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

Availability

Illustrator 2021      

25.1

Windows and macOS

3

Illustrator 2020      

24.3.2

Windows and macOS

3

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVE Numbers

Uncontrolled Search Path Element 

Arbitrary code execution  

Critical

CVE-2021-21007

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:    

  • Hou JingYi (@hjy79425575) of Qihoo 360 CERT
  • Yongjun Liu of nsfocus security team

Revisions

December 19, 2019: Inlcuded details about CVE-2019-16447

September 30, 2021: Added additional Solution row for N-1 version.

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