CVE-2021-39853

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Null Pointer Dereference Could Lead To Application Denial-of-Service

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Sep 29, 2021
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Aug 23, 2021

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service 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	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe	DC 2021 July and earlierAffected 20.0-Classic 2021 July and earlierAffected 17.0-Classic 2021 July and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb21-55.html

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