CVE-2016-0953

critical

Published 2016-02-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 before 15.2.4, Photoshop CC 2015 before 16.1.2, and Bridge CC before 6.2 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0951 and CVE-2016-0952.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39431 dos windows verified text · 2 KB

Francis Provencher · 2016-02-09

Adobe Photoshop CC / Bridge CC - '.iff' Parsing Memory Corruption

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

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Application: Adobe Photoshop CC & Bridge CC IFF file parsing memory corruption

Platforms: Windows

Versions: Bridge CC 6.1.1 and earlier versions

Version: Photoshop CC 16.1.1 (2015.1.1) and earlier versions

CVE; 2016-0953

Author: Francis Provencher of COSIG

Twitter: @COSIG_

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1) Introduction
2) Report Timeline
3) Technical details
4) POC

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1) Introduction
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Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop)

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2) Report Timeline
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2015-11-11: Francis Provencher from COSIG report the issue to PSIRT (ADOBE);

2016-02-09: Adobe release a patch (APSB16-03);

2016-02-09: COSIG release this advisory;

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3) Technical details
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This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Photoshop CC & Bridge CC. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must open a malicious file. By providing a malformed IFF file, an attacker can cause an heap memory corruption. An attacker could leverage this to execute arbitrary code under the context of the application.

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4) POC

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http://protekresearchlab.com/exploits/COSIG-2016-10.iff

https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/39431.zip

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OS impact

macOS Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
adobe	bridge_cc	`{"endIncluding":"6.1"}`
adobe	photoshop_cc	`{"endIncluding":"16.1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.