CVE-2023-26426 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Illustrator version 26.5.2 (and earlier) and 27.2.0 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Adobe	Illustrator

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/illustrator/apsb23-19.html

History

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator::::::macos::* cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator::::::windows::*
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published: 2023-03-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T13:15:10.407Z

Reserved: 2023-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-26426

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T11:46:24.540Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-22T17:15:15.523

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:51:24.117

Link: CVE-2023-26426

Redhat

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