CVE-2020-24433
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Nov 5, 2020
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 19, 2020
Description
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable a user without administrator privileges to delete arbitrary files and potentially execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to socially engineer a victim, or the attacker must already have some access to the environment.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | adobe |
Weaknesses
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Acrobat ReaderAdobe |
|
References
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