CVE-2026-21280

CWE-4264 documents4 sources
Severity
8.6HIGH
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.31%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 13

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 6.0

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDadobe/illustrator29.029.8.4+1
CVEListV5adobe/illustrator30.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-7pj6-2f5q-9w48: Illustrator versions 292026-01-13
CVEList
Illustrator | Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426)2026-01-13

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-21280 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
CVE-2026-21280 (HIGH CVSS 8.6) | Illustrator versions 29.8.3 | cvebase.io