Adobe March 2026 Security Updates Across Multiple Products
Adobe published its March 2026 security advisories covering multiple vulnerabilities across a broad set of products, with impacts including remote code execution (RCE), elevation of privilege, cross-site scripting (XSS), information disclosure, denial of service, and security restriction bypass. Products called out include Adobe Commerce (including Adobe Commerce B2B and Magento Open Source), Illustrator, Acrobat/Reader, Premiere Pro, Experience Manager (AEM), Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Stager, and the Adobe DNG SDK.
The Hong Kong CERT bulletin characterized the overall risk level of the March release as Medium, listing eight medium-risk product advisories (e.g., APSB26-05, APSB26-18, APSB26-24, APSB26-26). Canada’s Cyber Centre alert (AV26-215) echoed the same advisory set and provided affected version ranges (e.g., Illustrator 2025 prior to 29.8.4/30.1, Acrobat/Reader DC prior to 25.001.21265, Premiere Pro prior to 25.5, AEM Cloud Service and 6.5 LTS/6.5 SP23 and prior, and DNG SDK prior to 1.7.1 build 2471), urging organizations to review Adobe’s advisories and apply the required updates.
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HKCERT issues bulletin on Adobe March 2026 security update
On 2026-03-11, HKCERT published a security bulletin highlighting Adobe's March 2026 monthly security update. The bulletin appears to reference the same set of Adobe advisories released the previous day.
Adobe publishes March 2026 security advisories for multiple products
On 2026-03-10, Adobe released multiple security advisories covering vulnerabilities in products including Adobe Commerce, Magento Open Source, Illustrator, Acrobat/Reader, Premiere Pro, several Substance 3D applications, and Adobe Experience Manager. The advisories identified affected versions and indicated that updates were required to remediate the issues.
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