Adobe Lightroom Classic up to 15.4.1 improper authorization

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A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Lightroom Classic up to 15.4.1 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-48447. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Lightroom Classic up to 15.4.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Lightroom Classic is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. Exploit depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. Scope is changed.

It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-48447 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. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/11/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1548.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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