CVE-2026-81973

Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416)

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Sep 8, 2026
Updated: Sep 9, 2026
Reserved: Aug 27, 2026

Description

Acrobat Reader is affected by a Use After Free vulnerability 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
Adobe AcrobatAdobe	26.002.21900 and earlierAffected 26.002.21901Not affected
Acrobat ReaderAdobe	26.002.21900 and earlierAffected 26.002.21901Not affected
Acrobat 2024Adobe	24.001.30383 and earlierAffected 24.001.30429Not affected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb26-141.htmlvendor-advisory

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