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CAI Content Credentials EUVDEUVD-2026-100720

| CVE-2026-100124 HIGH
Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
2026-10-13 psirt@adobe.com GHSA-6jhj-7947-h72c
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: adobe
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Reach SDK validation interface over network
  2. Exploit
    Submit malformed content-credential input
  3. Execution
    Bypass improper input validation check
  4. Impact
    Gain unauthorized write access to content credentials

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires that a target system actually process attacker-supplied input through the CAI Content Credentials SDK's validation path - i.e., the SDK must be deployed and reachable to parse/verify content credential data. Per the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), no authentication and no user interaction are needed, so a remote attacker can trigger the improper input validation against a default-configured deployment that accepts external content for credential verification. The principal LIMITING FACTOR is deployment scope rather than a configuration toggle: the flaw only matters where the vulnerable SDK version is integrated into a service that ingests untrusted content; impact is confined to integrity (unauthorized write / validation bypass) with no confidentiality or availability effect, which bounds realistic damage to forgery and tampering of content provenance rather than full system compromise.

Impact

This is a genuinely elevated but not top-tier priority. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) describes a remotely reachable flaw that requires no authentication, no user interaction, and low attack complexity - all of which favor exploitability. However, impact is scoped narrowly to integrity (C:N/I:H/A:N): the vulnerability yields unauthorized write access and a security-feature bypass, not data theft or denial of service, which is consistent with a Content Credentials provenance/validation SDK where the core risk is forging or tampering with signed content assertions rather than reading secrets. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no POC are present in the input, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active or automatable exploitation - the 7.5 is driven almost entirely by the easy access vector rather than by demonstrated real-world weaponization. CONFLICTING SIGNAL TO VERIFY: the input Tag says 'Authentication Bypass,' but the NVD description and CWE-20 characterize this as an Improper Input Validation / security-feature bypass leading to unauthorized write, not an authentication bypass - these are distinct and the tag may overstate the nature of the flaw; confirm the exact bypassed control against Adobe APSB26-163. Net: patch on a normal priority cadence; it is a legitimate integrity risk but currently lacks the exploitation signals that would make it an emergency.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker sends crafted or malformed input to a system that uses the CAI Content Credentials SDK to validate content provenance, exploiting improper input validation to bypass the integrity/security check without authenticating or requiring any user interaction. This lets the attacker gain unauthorized write access - for example, injecting or altering content credential assertions so tampered media is accepted as validly signed. No public exploit code was identified in the provided intelligence, so this scenario is inferred from the CVSS vector and description rather than a demonstrated POC.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 0.6% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 13, 2026

Improper input validation in the CAI Content Credentials SDK (Adobe security bulletin APSB26-163) lets unauthenticated remote attackers bypass the SDK's content-credential validation path and gain unauthorized write access, yielding an integrity-only impact (C:N/I:H/A:N, CVSS 7.5). Any deployment that ingests attacker-supplied or externally sourced credential data and runs the vulnerable SDK version through its parse/verify routine is exposed; no authentication (PR:N) and no user interaction (UI:N) are required per the assessed vector, so a default-configured verification service reachable from the network is sufficient. The practical limiting factor is deployment scope rather than a configuration toggle - the flaw only matters where untrusted content actually flows into the SDK - and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) at the time of writing, which keeps this an elevated but not top-tier priority.

RemediationAI

Patch status: Patch available per vendor advisory - Adobe addresses this class of defect in APSB26-163 (https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/content-credentials-sdk/apsb26-163.html), so upgrade the CAI Content Credentials SDK to the fixed build listed there; the feed does not specify an exact fix version, so the advisory's version table should be consulted rather than assuming a number. If immediate upgrade is not possible, the effective compensating control is to stop feeding untrusted input into the vulnerable validation path: place the SDK behind a service that only accepts content from authenticated, trusted producers (trade-off: breaks public or partner-facing provenance verification workflows until patched), or disable the SDK's credential-verification routine entirely while it remains unpatched and treat any provenance assertions as untrusted (trade-off: loses the authenticity guarantee the component exists to provide). Network-exposing a verification endpoint can be throttled by restricting it to known source IP ranges or mTLS clients, which reduces exposure but does not eliminate the validation flaw for allowed callers, and any content that has already traversed the vulnerable parser should be re-validated after patching because integrity-only bypasses can silently leave forged credential records in place.

Affected VersionsENISA

C2PA Tool 0 ≤c2patool-v0.27.15
Content Credentials JS SDK 0 ≤@contentauth/c2pa-web@0.13.4
Content Credentials Rust SDK 0 ≤c2pa-v0.90.15

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerability is rooted in CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) inside Adobe's CAI (Content Authenticity Initiative) Content Credentials SDK, the component that parses and verifies provenance/authenticity metadata attached to digital content. The assessed CVSS 3.1 vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N describes a network-reachable, low-complexity attack requiring no privileges and no user interaction, scoped to the vulnerable component, with the entire impact expressed as high integrity loss and no confidentiality or availability effect - the signature of a validation/security-feature bypass rather than memory corruption or code execution. Because the failing logic sits in the input-validation routine, the attacker's lever is the content itself: supplying malformed, unexpected, or crafted credential data that the SDK accepts as valid, subverting the authenticity check it is supposed to enforce and permitting unauthorized writes into credential state or provenance records. The feed provides no CPE strings, so exact affected package identifiers and version boundaries must be taken from the vendor advisory (APSB26-163, https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/content-credentials-sdk/apsb26-163.html), which is the authoritative source for the SDK version range. Our independent assessment confirms the same vector and prerequisites and emphasizes that exploitation is conditional on the vulnerable SDK version being deployed in a service that actually processes external input through its validation path.

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Severity by source

Vendor (adobe) PRIMARY 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
vuln.today AI 7.5 HIGH

Description states remote, no user interaction, and unauthorized write via a security-feature bypass, so AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N with integrity-only impact (I:H, C:N/A:N).

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (adobe).

CVSS VectorVendor: adobe

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

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 require user interaction.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

The CAI Content Credentials SDK has an input-validation weakness that can let remote, unauthenticated attackers bypass content-credential validation and write unauthorized data, undermining the integrity of content authenticity decisions. Organizations that deploy the vulnerable SDK in network-reachable verification or ingestion workflows-especially those processing externally supplied credential data-could face corrupted provenance records and loss of trust in content verification. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and no vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis, so leadership should prioritize near-term compensating controls for affected deployments.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; restrict network exposure of parse/verify services to trusted sources, enforce authentication/authorization at the service layer, strictly validate/sanitize all externally supplied credential data, run the SDK with least privilege or in a sandbox, monitor for unauthorized write activity, and apply vendor mitigations from Adobe APSB26-163 as they become available.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.6%
Top 52% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
content-provenance developer SDK, limited and emerging production footprint
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.6%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
Yes
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

39
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: +1
CVSS: +38
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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