Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-21316 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-21316 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-21316?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.5, published 10 February 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Adobe Audition 25.3 and earlier.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-21316?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-21316 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-21316?
- Check whether you run Adobe Audition 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.
Technical details
This vulnerability is a classic buffer overflow issue (CWE-788: Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer) in Adobe Audition's file parsing logic. The vulnerable component fails to properly validate buffer boundaries when processing audio files, allowing out-of-bounds memory access. Exploitation requires user interaction—specifically, opening a crafted malicious audio file within the application. An attacker can trigger a denial-of-service condition causing the application to crash or hang. The vulnerability affects versions 25.3 and earlier; patches are expected to be available through Adobe's security updates.
Affected products
- Adobe Audition 25.3 and earlier
Timeline
- 2026-02-10: disclosed