Adobe Security Bulletin

Security updates available for Adobe Photoshop Elements | APSB25-13

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

ASPB25-13

February 11, 2025    

3

Summary

 Adobe has released updates for Photoshop Elements for macOS. This update resolves an important vulnerability.  Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation in the context of the current user.

Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in these updates.  

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Photoshop Elements

2025.0 [build: 20240918.PSE.cae27345, 20240918.PSE.d3263bae (Mac ARM)

macOS  (ARM)

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratingsand recommends users to download the new installer and upgrade their installations.     

Product

Version

Platform

Priority

Availability

Photoshop Elements
  

2025.1 [build: 20250124.PSE.f552973b, 20250124.PSE.5345f07d (Mac ARM)]

macOS (ARM)          

3

Note:

To verify the version of Photoshop Elements on your system, please follow the following steps:  

  • Help
  • About Photoshop Elements menu
  • The splash screen would show the current version and build number.

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVSS base score 

CVE Numbers

Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions (CWE-379)

 

Privilege escalation

Important

5.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVE-2025-21162

Acknowledgments

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

  • isaacordonez  - CVE-2025-21162

NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check out https://hackerone.com/adobe


For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com.

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