Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-27218 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-27218 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-27218?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.5, published 10 March 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Adobe Substance3D Painter 11.1.2 and earlier.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-27218?
- 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-2026-27218 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-27218?
- Check whether you run Adobe Substance 3d Painter or Adobe Substance3D Painter 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
The vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference in Substance3D Painter versions 11.1.2 and earlier. The flaw requires user interaction—specifically opening a specially crafted malicious file—to trigger the crash. An attacker can exploit this to cause a denial-of-service condition by crashing the application. The attack vector is local (file-based) and impacts availability of the application. Patches are expected to be available in later versions after 11.1.2.
Affected products
- Adobe Substance3D Painter 11.1.2 and earlier
Timeline
- 2026-03-10: disclosed