CVE-2026-113551: Adobe Audition privilege escalation (high)

Summary

Audition contains a secure design flaw that lets a local attacker with low-privilege access gain elevated privileges, with no user interaction needed. The attacker must already have a local login on the system to exploit it.

Read the original description

Audition is affected by a Violation of Secure Design Principles vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. A low-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction. Scope is changed.

Who should check

Teams running Adobe Audition 26.5 and earlier or 25.6.6 and earlier on Windows or macOS

Read the source excerpt

“26.5 and earlier”

adobe.com

cve.now Index

20Pcve.now Index 20 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional

Exploitation0/40No signal
Exposure5/25Specific setups only
Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
Severity9.7/10CVSS 8.7, total technical impact per CISA
No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

Would score about 70 if added to CISA KEV
Would score about 65 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
Would score about 30 if CISA's SSVC rates it automatable

How the score works · Rankings

What to do

Check whether your setup matches what the bug needs.
Adobe Audition 26.5 and earlier on Windows and macOS Adobe Audition 25.6.6 and earlier on Windows and macOS
Workaround: The checked data lists no workaround and no fix. Until a fixed version is published, the only documented step is to follow the vendor advisory for updates.

Check your systems with an agent

Paste this into a coding or ops agent. It checks your systems read-only and reports a table per asset.

Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-113551 (Audition | Violation of Secure Design Principles (CWE-657)), using the cve.now data below.

Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only.

What cve.now has for CVE-2026-113551 (entry last updated 2026-11-10):
Affected:
- Adobe Audition: through 26.5
- Adobe Audition: through 25.6.6
Fixed versions: none listed yet.
Conditions (all must be true for the bug to be hit):
- Adobe Audition 26.5 and earlier on Windows and macOS (source: https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/audition/apsb26-102.html)
- Adobe Audition 25.6.6 and earlier on Windows and macOS (source: https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/audition/apsb26-102.html)
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
Attacker needs: local access, low-privilege login, no user action.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-113551 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
This KEV status is for CVE-2026-113551 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one.

How to check:
- Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory.

Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/audition/apsb26-102.html
Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing.

Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-113551
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Timeline

Nov 10, 2026, 8:47 PM UTCCVE published
Nov 10, 2026, 9:14 PM UTCCISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
Nov 10, 2026, 9:14 PM UTCRecord last updated
Nov 10, 2026, 9:22 PM UTCFirst seen by cve.now

Affected versions

Adobe Audition
through 26.5
Adobe Audition
through 25.6.6

Evidence 3

Vendor advisory · 1

Establishes: Affected and fixed versions.

Advisory
adobe.com · trust/security/products/audition/apsb26-102.html

CVE record · 2

Establishes: The identifier and description.

Record
CVE List · CVE-2026-113551
Record
NVD · CVE-2026-113551

Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about CVE-2026-113551

Is CVE-2026-113551 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

What does this mean?

The flaw is a violation of secure design principles (CWE-657). It can let an attacker gain elevated access to the Audition application.Source: adobe.com

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-113551?

Audition: through 26.5. Audition: through 25.6.6.Source: cve.now feed data

Am I affected, and how do I check?

Adobe Audition 26.5 and earlier, and Adobe Audition 25.6.6 and earlier, on Windows and macOS. To check a installed copy, compare its Audition version number against these ranges.Source: adobe.com

How do I fix CVE-2026-113551?

The checked data lists no fixed version, so no upgrade target can be named from these facts. Check the vendor advisory for a release that addresses this issue.Source: adobe.com

What if there's no patch?

The checked data lists no workaround and no fix. Until a fixed version is published, the only documented step is to follow the vendor advisory for updates.Source: adobe.com

Audition | Violation of Secure Design Principles (CWE-657)