CVE-2021-21041

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

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 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
3.1	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-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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