Adobe’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday: Addressing 60 Vulnerabilities Across Various Products
Adobe has announced a significant security update addressing 60 critical vulnerabilities across 13 of its flagship products as part of its August 2025 Patch Tuesday initiative. Published on August 12, 2025, this extensive security bulletin marks one of the most notable coordinated vulnerability disclosure events in Adobe’s recent history, impacting a wide range of applications from Creative Cloud to enterprise commerce platforms. The vulnerabilities are particularly severe in Adobe Commerce, which has eight critical security flaws, followed closely by Adobe Photoshop with seven vulnerabilities. These security issues primarily affect memory management systems and input validation mechanisms, creating potential vectors for remote code execution and privilege escalation attacks. Attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code on affected systems, jeopardising entire creative workflows and enterprise environments.
The vulnerabilities predominantly arise from inadequate bounds checking in image processing libraries and insufficient validation of user-supplied data across various file formats, including PDF, PSD, and proprietary Adobe formats. Adobe researchers have indicated that the discovery of these vulnerabilities resulted from a combination of internal security assessments and contributions from external security researchers through their Bug Bounty program. The coordinated disclosure process revealed that several vulnerabilities shared similar root causes, highlighting systemic issues in how Adobe’s applications manage untrusted input data. A cluster of critical memory management vulnerabilities affecting Adobe’s core Creative Suite applications poses the most significant concern. These vulnerabilities exploit weaknesses in memory allocation and deallocation when processing complex multimedia files, allowing attackers to leverage malformed image files to trigger heap-based buffer overflows, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the affected application.
Categories: Security Vulnerabilities, Memory Management Issues, Software Patch Updates
Tags: Adobe, Security Update, Vulnerabilities, Patch Tuesday, Creative Cloud, Adobe Commerce, Memory Management, Remote Code Execution, Input Validation, Bug Bounty