#202020

Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on Jan 13, 2026

Security Updates Available for Adobe Illustrator | APSB26-03

Bulletin ID
Date published
Priority
APSB26-03
January 13, 2026
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Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Illustrator. This update resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution or application denial-of-service.

Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in these updates.

Affected versions

Product
Version
Platform
Illustrator 2025
29.8.3 and earlier
Windows
Illustrator 2026
30.0 and earlier
Windows
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Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app's update mechanism. For more information, please reference this help page.

Product
Version
Platform
Priority
Availability
Illustrator 2025
29.8.4 and above
Windows and macOS
3
Download Page
Illustrator 2026
30.1 and above
Windows and macOS
3
Download Page
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Vulnerability Details

CVE-2026-21280
Vulnerability category: Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426)
Vulnerability impact: Arbitrary code execution
Severity: Critical
CVSS base score: 8.6
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2026-21288
Vulnerability category: NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
Vulnerability impact: Application denial-of-service
Severity: Important
CVSS base score: 5.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following researcher for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:

  • jony_juice -- CVE-2026-21280
  • Francis Provencher (prl) -- CVE-2026-21288

NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with Intigriti. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check out https://app.intigriti.com/programs/adobe/adobepublic/detail.

For more information, visit https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/bug-bounty.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com.

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APSB26-03
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Priority 3 Security update
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Adobe
Created
2026-01-13
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