Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe Illustrator | APSB26-79

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB26-79

July 14, 2026    

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Illustrator. This update resolves critical vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation.

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  

29.8.7 and earlier

Windows

Illustrator 2026  

30.5 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  

29.8.9

Windows and macOS

3

Illustrator 2026

30.6

Windows and macOS

3

Vulnerability Details

Vulnerability Category Vulnerability Impact Severity CVSS base score CVSS vector CVE Number
Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) Privilege escalation Critical 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N CVE-2026-48334
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-2026-48275
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) Arbitrary code execution Critical 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2026-48337
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) Arbitrary code execution Critical 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2026-48336
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) Arbitrary code execution Critical 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2026-48336

Acknowledgments

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

  • joney_juice - CVE-2026-48275
  • Francis provencher (prl) - CVE-2026-48335, CVE-2026-48336, CVE-2026-48337
  • Kieran (kaiksi) - CVE-2026-48334

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. 

Adobe, Inc.

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