CVE-2020-24428: 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…

PriorityP338high7.7CVSS 3.1

AVLACHPRNUIRSCCHIHAH

EPSS

2.23%

81.0th percentile

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.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	acrobat	<= 20.001.30005	—
adobe	acrobat_dc	<= 17.011.30175	—
adobe	acrobat_dc	<= 20.012.20048	—
adobe	acrobat_reader	<= 20.001.30005	—
adobe	acrobat_reader	unspecified – 2017.011.30175	—
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	<= 17.011.30175	—
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	<= 20.012.20048	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.7HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.05.1MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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