Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-48312

Adobe C2Pa ≤ 0.84.0

Published
14 July 2026
Modified
16 July 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0016 5th percentile
Risk Priority 37 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-48312 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Adobe C2Pa. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Subvert Trust Controls (T1553); ranked at the 5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security measures and gain unauthorized write access. Exploitation of this issue does not…

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require user interaction.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1553 Subvert Trust Controls Defense Impairment
Adversaries may undermine security controls that will either warn users of untrusted activity or prevent execution of untrusted programs.
Why these techniques?

Improper input validation enables security feature bypass for unauthorized write access, directly facilitating subversion of trust controls in content credentials verification.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-48302Same product: Adobe C2Pa
CVE-2026-48352Same product: Adobe C2Pa
CVE-2026-48351Same product: Adobe C2Pa
CVE-2026-48353Same product: Adobe C2Pa
CVE-2026-11244Same product: Apple Macos
CVE-2026-11128Same product: Apple Macos
CVE-2026-7944Same product: Apple Macos
CVE-2026-10004Same product: Apple Macos
CVE-2026-12016Same product: Apple Macos
CVE-2026-11246Same product: Apple Macos

Affected Assets

adobe
c2pa
≤ 0.84.0
adobe
c2pa-web
≤ 0.7.0
adobe
c2patool
≤ 0.17.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 6 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly requires validation of all input to block malformed data that bypasses Content Credentials security checks.

prevent

Enforces access control decisions so that even a bypassed credential check cannot grant unauthorized write operations.

prevent

Limits privileges to the minimum required, reducing the impact of any successful input-validation bypass to write access.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require and enforce input validation during development.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Testing against a defined set of requirements and using code review plus vulnerability scanning forces validation of inputs and handling of unanticipated conditions, reducing the chance that malformed data will be accepted.

prevents

Secure-coding guidelines and mandatory security testing (including code scans) compel developers to validate and sanitize inputs at design and implementation time, lowering the incidence of malformed or malicious data reaching downstream components.

prevents

Mandating input controls that include integrity checks and input validation ensures that untrusted data is examined before use, blocking the root cause of many injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

prevents

Security-by-design principles explicitly call for data validation and sanitization at every layer, reducing the chance that malformed or malicious input will be processed without scrutiny.

prevents

Requiring language-specific secure coding standards, peer review, SAST and documented mitigation of common programming errors forces validation of all inputs before they are trusted.

none

Regular automated validation of system software and data content, combined with scanning of all inbound files, enforces input validation at the boundary before untrusted content is processed.

References