CVE-2023-29320

ZDI-CAN-20712: Adobe Acrobat Blacklist Bypass Design flaw

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 10, 2023
Updated
May 28, 2026
Reserved
Apr 4, 2023

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Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 23.003.20244 (and earlier) and 20.005.30467 (and earlier) are affected by an Violation of Secure Design Principles vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user by bypassing the API blacklisting feature. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe

Weaknesses

  • CWE-657 Violation of Secure Design Principles (CWE-657)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe
  • 23.003.20244 and earlierAffected

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