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Adobe: Critical Code Execution Flaws in Photoshop

Patch Tuesday: Adobe ships patches for more than a dozen security defects in a wide range of software products.

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Software maker Adobe on Tuesday rolled out fixes for more than a dozen security defects in multiple products and warned that malicious hackers can exploit these bugs in remote code execution attacks.

The company said the vulnerabilities affect Adobe Photoshop, Substance 3D Stager, Illustrator for iPad, Adobe Animate, and the Adobe Substance 3D Designer. 

According to Adobe’s documentation, the Photoshop update is available for Windows and macOS and should be treated with urgency because of the risk of code execution exploitation via booby-trapped files.

The raw details:

  • Adobe Photoshop — This update addresses a pair of arbitrary code execution bugs (CVE-2025-21127 and CVE-2025-21122) with critical-severity ratings. 
  • Adobe Substance3D Stager — This bulletin documents five critical-severity memory safety flaws that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.    These bugs carry a CVSS severity score of 7.8/10 and affects both Windows and macOS users.
  • Adobe Illustrator for iPad — This covers two separate memory safety issues that expose Apple iPad users to code execution attacks. Both flaws are rated critical with CVSS severity scores of 7.8/10.
  • Adobe Animate — This update addresses an integer underflow bug that could lead to   arbitrary code execution exploits. Available for both Windows and macOS users.
  • Adobe Substance3D Designer — Includes patches for four critical memory safety defects affecting all platforms.  Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

Adobe said it was not aware of any exploits in the wild for this month’s patch batch.

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The most important is CVE-2026-96951, a security feature bypass flaw in Windows that has been exploited in the wild.

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The flaws affect products such as Commerce, Photoshop, ColdFusion, Substance 3D, Dimension, FrameMaker and Bridge.

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The nine critical security defects could be exploited for arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation.

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Tracked as CVE-2026-75650, the exploited defect allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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Adobe and Nvidia each published several advisories, including ones that address critical vulnerabilities in their products.

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The first exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2026-71362 were observed shortly after Adobe released patches.

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Intel has informed customers about several high-severity vulnerabilities that can lead to privilege escalation and even code execution.

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