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Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader
12 April 2023
Adobe has released security updates to address critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and MacOS.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-26395, CVE-2023-26405 and CVE-2023-26407) could lead to arbitrary code execution, while that of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-26406 and CVE-2023-26408) could lead to security feature bypass.
The vulnerabilities affect the following product versions:
•Acrobat DC 23.001.20093 and earlier
•Acrobat Reader DC 23.001.20093 and earlier
•Acrobat 2020 20.005.30441 and earlier
•Acrobat Reader 2020 20.005.30441 and earlier
Users of affected product versions are advised to update their software installations to the latest versions immediately by choosing Help > Check for Updates.
More information is available here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb23-24.html
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/11/april_patch_tuesday_ransomware/