CVE-2026-21273

high
Assigned by CNA: adobe
Published 2026-08-11 · Modified 2026-08-11
CVSS v3
8.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.7

Description

is affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized read and write access. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. Scope is changed.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
91%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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