Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on Jul 14, 2026

Security Updates Available for Adobe Media Encoder | APSB26-72

Bulletin ID

Date published

Priority

APSB26-72

July 14, 2026

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Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Media Encoder. This update resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and memory exposure.

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

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Adobe Media Encoder

26.2.2 and earlier versions

Windows and macOS

Adobe Media Encoder

25.6.5 and earlier versions

Windows and macOS

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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.

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.

Product

Version

Platform

Priority

Adobe Media Encoder

26.3

Windows and macOS

3

Adobe Media Encoder

25.6.6

Windows and macOS

3

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Vulnerability Details

Vulnerability category

Vulnerability impact

Severity

CVSS base score

CVSS vector

CVE number

Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2026-47971

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2026-47976

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2026-48370

Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2026-48366

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Memory exposure

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2026-47979

Acknowledgments

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

voidexploit - CVE-2026-47971
yjdfy - CVE-2026-47976, CVE-2026-48366, CVE-2026-48370
jony_juice - CVE-2026-47979

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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APSB26-72

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2026-07-14