It’s the second Tuesday of the month, which means Adobe and Microsoft have released their latest security patches. Take a break from your regularly scheduled activities and join us as we review the details of their latest advisories. If you’d rather watch the video recap, check out the Patch Report webcast on our
YouTube channel. It should be posted within a couple of hours after the release.
Adobe Patches for June 2023
For June, Adobe released four patches addressing 18 CVEs in Adobe Commerce, Substance 3D Designer, Adobe Animate, and Experience Manager. The bug in
Substance 3D Designer was found by ZDI researcher Mat Powell and could lead to arbitrary code execution when opening a specially crafted file. The patch for
Commerce is the largest this month with a dozen total fixes. Most of these are Important or Moderate rated Security Feature Bypasses (SFB), but there is a lone Critical-rate code execution bug in there as well. The fix for
Adobe Animate also addresses a lone code execution bug. The patch for
Experience Manager fixes four bugs, but none are Critical. There are three Important-rated cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs getting fixes plus one more SFB.
None of the bugs fixed by Adobe this month are listed as publicly known or under active attack at the time of release. Adobe categorizes these updates as a deployment priority rating of 3.
Microsoft Patches for June 2023
This month, Microsoft released 69 new patches addressing CVES in Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; Exchange Server; Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based); SharePoint Server; .NET and Visual Studio; Microsoft Teams; Azure DevOps; Microsoft Dynamics; and the Remote Desktop Client. This is in addition to 25 CVEs that were previously released by third parties and are now being documented in the Security Updates Guide.
A total of five of these bugs were submitted through the ZDI program. This includes fixes for some of the bugs submitted at the Pwn2Own Vancouver contest. The SharePoint and local privilege escalations should be addressed with these fixes. However, we’re still awaiting the fixes for the Teams bugs demonstrated during the competition.
Of the new patches released today, six are rated Critical, 62 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. This volume of fixes is slighter larger than the typical number of fixes for June, but not extraordinarily so. July tends to be a larger month as it is the last patch Tuesday before the Black Hat USA conference. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues.
None of the CVEs released today are listed as being publicly known or under active attack at the time of release.