Vingroup's security expert discovered a critical vulnerability in Adobe Illustrator

Adobe has released urgent updates to fix a series of security holes in its 12 apps for Windows and macOS. These flaws allow hackers to execute arbitrary code on the victim's computer.

In total, Adobe has just released patches for 20 vulnerabilities, 18 critical vulnerabilities, and 2 critical vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are found in software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Media Encoder, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator and Marketo.

Adobe advises its customers to update the software listed above to the latest version as soon as possible. This will help them avoid being attacked by hackers.

Vingroup's security expert discovered a critical vulnerability in Adobe Illustrator

Among the 20 vulnerabilities that Adobe has just patched, some were discovered by a Vietnamese expert working at VinCSS (a subsidiary specializing in cybersecurity of Vingroup).

Specifically, according to Bleeping Computer, Mr. Tran Van Khang (Tran Van Khang) of VinCSS together with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative discovered vulnerabilities CVE-2020-24409, CVE-2020-24410 and CVE-2020-24411 in Adobe Illustrator. These are extremely critical vulnerabilities because if exploited successfully, the hacker can execute arbitrary code on the victim's computer.

Vingroup's security expert discovered a critical vulnerability in Adobe Illustrator

Adobe also thanked Khang, nicknamed khangkito, on their Illustrator product support page. The contributions of Mr. Khang and the white hat hacker community have helped Adobe a lot in protecting customers as well as the safety of the internet in general.