Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on Jan 13, 2026

Security Updates Available for Adobe Illustrator | APSB26-03

Bulletin ID	Date Published	Priority
APSB26-03	January 13, 2026	3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Illustrator. This update resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution or application denial-of-service.

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

Affected Versions

Product	Version	Platform
Illustrator 2025	29.8.3 and earlier	Windows
Illustrator 2026	30.0 and earlier	Windows

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following  priority ratings  and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app's update mechanism. For more information, please reference this help page.

Product	Version	Platform	Priority	Availability
Illustrator 2025	29.8.4 and above	Windows and macOS	3	Download Page
Illustrator 2026	30.1 and above	Windows and macOS	3	Download Page

Vulnerability Details

Vulnerability Category	Vulnerability Impact	Severity	CVSS base score	CVSS vector	CVE Numbers
Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426)	Arbitrary code execution	Critical	8.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CVE-2026-21280
NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)	Application denial-of-service	Important	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CVE-2026-21288

Acknowledgments

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

jony_juice -- CVE-2026-21280
Francis Provencher (prl) -- CVE-2026-21288

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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