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CVE-2020-24428

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CVE-2020-24428

Published: Nov 5, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.7

HIGH

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) for macOS are affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could result in local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

VendorProductVersions

Adobe

Acrobat Reader

affected
unspecified - <= 2017.011.30175
affected
unspecified - <= 2020.012.20048
affected
unspecified - <= 2020.001.30005
affected
unspecified - <= None

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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