Bulletin ID
Last updated on
Jul 14, 2026
Security Updates Available for Adobe Media Encoder | APSB26-72
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Date Published |
Priority |
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APSB26-72 |
July 14, 2026 |
3 |
Summary
Affected Versions
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Product |
Version |
Platform |
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Adobe Media Encoder |
26.2.2 and earlier versions |
Windows and macOS |
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Adobe Media Encoder |
25.6.5 and earlier versions |
Windows and macOS |
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.
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Product |
Version |
Platform |
Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
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Adobe Media Encoder |
26.3 |
Windows and macOS |
3 |
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Adobe Media Encoder |
25.6.6 |
Windows and macOS |
3 |
For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.
Vulnerability Details
| Vulnerability Category | Vulnerability Impact | Severity | CVSS base score | CVSS vector | CVE Number |
| Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) | 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-2026-47971 |
| 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-2026-47976 |
| 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-2026-48370 |
| 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-2026-48366 |
| Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) | Memory exposure | Important | 5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | CVE-2026-47979 |
Acknowledgments
Adobe would like to thank the following for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:
- voidexploit - CVE-2026-47971
- yjdfy - CVE-2026-47976, CVE-2026-48366, CVE-2026-48370
- jony_juice - CVE-2026-47979
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
