CVE-2021-21033

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

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Feb 11, 2021
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 18, 2020

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	8.8 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free (CWE-416)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe	2020.013.20074 and earlierAffected 2020.001.30018 and earlierAffected 2017.011.30188 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb21-09.html

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