CVE-2026-21316

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Access of Memory After Buffer End in Adobe Audition Causes DoS

Publication date: 2026-02-10

Last updated on: 2026-02-11

Assigner: Adobe Systems Incorporated

Description

Audition versions 25.3 and earlier are affected by an Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or become unresponsive. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

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Published

2026-02-10

Last Modified

2026-02-11

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2026-02-10

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2026-21316

EUVD

EUVD-2026-7055

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
adobe	audition	to 25.6 (exc)

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-788	The product reads or writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability affects Adobe Audition versions 25.3 and earlier. It is an Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer issue, meaning the application tries to access memory beyond the allocated buffer. This can cause the application to crash or become unresponsive.

To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker needs the victim to open a malicious file, which triggers the memory access error.

Impact Analysis

Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to a denial-of-service condition where the Adobe Audition application crashes or becomes unresponsive.

This means users may lose access to the application temporarily and potentially lose unsaved work.

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Mitigation Strategies

To mitigate this vulnerability, avoid opening malicious files in affected versions of Adobe Audition (version 25.3 and earlier). Since exploitation requires user interaction, do not open files from untrusted or unknown sources.

Additionally, consider updating Adobe Audition to a version later than 25.3 once a patch is available to address this vulnerability.

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