CVE-2021-40728

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Use After Free Arbitrary Code Execution

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Oct 15, 2021
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Sep 8, 2021

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20095 (and earlier), 21.007.20096 (and earlier), 20.004.30015 (and earlier), and 17.011.30202 (and earlier) is affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of the GetURL function on a global object window 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

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	21.007.20095 and earlierAffected 21.007.20096 and earlierAffected 20.004.30015 and earlierAffected 17.011.30202 and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb21-104.html

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