Adobe next week will patch a second zero-day vulnerability found in the leaked documents from the Hacking Team, a controversial Italian company that sells surveillance software and exploits to governments, Adobe said late Friday.

The flaw will be patched this coming week; Adobe did not set a release date for the fix.

“Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,” Adobe noted in an advisory.

The vulnerability was the second uncovered in the gigabytes of documents leaked after attackers compromised the Hacking Team’s network and pilfered emails, financial information and contracts from the firm’s systems.

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