CVE-2026-113526: Adobe After Effects violation of secure design principles arbitrary code execution

CVE-2026-113526 · Severity: high · CVSS 8.6 · Published 2026-11-10

Adobe After Effects, a professional video editing and motion graphics application, is affected by multiple high-severity vulnerabilities including improper input validation, path traversal, and buffer overflow flaws that allow arbitrary code execution. An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted malicious file, leading to code execution with the privileges of the current user and potential system compromise.

Technologies: Adobe After Effects. Vendors: Adobe.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-113526 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-113526 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-113526?
High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.6, published 10 November 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
Adobe After Effects 26.5 and earlier.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-113526?
Yes: fixed in After Effects 27.0, 26.5.3. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
How is CVE-2026-113526 attacked?
It is attacked with local access, in a web application.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-113526?
Check whether you run Adobe After Effects at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • Fixed in: After Effects 27.0, 26.5.3

Technical details

CVE-2026-113526 is a violation of secure design principles (CWE-657) affecting After Effects; related issues include improper input validation (CVE-2026-113534), path traversal (CVE-2026-113532), and multiple out-of-bounds write and buffer overflow flaws. All require local access, no privileges, and user interaction to open a malicious file; exploitation results in arbitrary code execution within the user's context with changed scope. Adobe has patched these in After Effects 27.0 and 26.5.3.

Affected products

  • Adobe After Effects 26.5 and earlier

Timeline

  • 2026-11-10: disclosed

References

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