Riskcovery

CVE-2020-24437

Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead to Arbitrary Code Execution

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Nov 5, 2020
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Aug 19, 2020

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Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Format event actions that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe
  • 2017.011.30175 and earlierAffected
  • 2020.012.20048 and earlierAffected
  • 2020.001.30005 and earlierAffected
  • None and earlierAffected

References

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