CVE-2026-96521

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Description

Photoshop Desktop is affected by an out-of-bounds write 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.

Severity

HIGH

CVSS score

7.8 (v3.1)

Vulnerability status

Analyzed

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-10-13 21:20:07.220000

Last modified

2026-10-28 15:32:51.700000

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