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CVE-2021-28641

Published: Aug 20, 2021

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197 (and earlier) are affected by an Use-after-free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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.

VendorProductVersions

Adobe

Acrobat Reader

affected
unspecified - <= 2020.004.30005
affected
unspecified - <= 2017.011.30197
affected
unspecified - <= 2021.005.20054
affected
unspecified - <= None

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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