Adobe Lightroom Classic up to 15.4.1 out-of-bounds write

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Adobe Lightroom Classic up to 15.4.1. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-48405. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Lightroom Classic up to 15.4.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-787. The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Lightroom Classic 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.

The advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-48405 since 05/21/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/11/2026).

Upgrading to version 15.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Adobe

Name

• Lightroom Classic

Version

• 15.0
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.2.0
• 15.2.1
• 15.3
• 15.3.0
• 15.3.1
• 15.4
• 15.4.0
• 15.4.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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