CVE-2021-28565

Adobe Acrobat Reader out-of-bounds read could lead to information exposure

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Sep 2, 2021
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Mar 16, 2021

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in the PDFLibTool component. 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	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe	2020.001.30020 and earlierAffected 2021.001.20150 and earlierAffected 2017.011.30194 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb21-29.html

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