ZDI-26-679: Adobe Photoshop DCM JPEG Image Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Admiralty grading (A–F · 1–6)
Source reliability
- A Completely reliable
- B Usually reliable
- C Fairly reliable
- D Not usually reliable
- E Unreliable
- F Cannot be judged
Information credibility
- 1 Confirmed
- 2 Probably true
- 3 Possibly true
- 4 Doubtful
- 5 Improbable
- 6 Cannot be judged
NATO Admiralty (AJP-2.1) grades confidence, independent of the risk score. Cross-source corroboration isn't tracked for non-CVE news, so single-source items are capped at a lower credibility number; a low number does not imply low quality.
Key metrics
- CVSS
- 7.8
- EPSS
- 0%
Key insight
An integer-overflow vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop's JPEG processing enables remote code execution upon user interaction and is listed in the CISA KEV catalogue.
Description
CVE-2026-75862 is an integer-overflow vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop's DCM JPEG image processing. It enables remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious image file or visits a malicious webpage. The vulnerability was assigned a CVSS score of 7.8 and is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. Exploitation requires user interaction.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 78.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 15.00
- raw before weight
- 93.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational