CVE•Published 2026-01-13•Modified 2026-08-28•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-21280Adobe · Illustrator

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
8.6
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
13
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 87% of all CVEs
Description

Illustrator versions 29.8.3, 30.0 and earlier are affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. If the application uses a search path to locate critical resources such as programs, an attacker could modify that search path to point to a malicious program, which the targeted application would then execute. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file and scope is changed.

Timeline
Published 2026-01-13
Modified 2026-08-28

External references

Search for exposed instances

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Known PoCs on GitHub

No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-21280 on GitHub.