CVE-2020-24433Improper Access Control in Adobe Acrobat Reader

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.88%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 5
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable a user without administrator privileges to delete arbitrary files and potentially execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to socially engineer a victim, or the attacker must already have some access to the environment.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

CVEListV5adobe/acrobat_readerunspecified2017.011.30175+3
NVDadobe/acrobat_reader20.001.30005
NVDadobe/acrobat_reader_dc17.011.30175+1
NVDadobe/acrobat20.001.30005
NVDadobe/acrobat_dc17.011.30175+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5fm6-8c62-xw4m: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 20202022-05-24
CVEList
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component2020-11-05
CVE-2020-24433 — Improper Access Control in Adobe | cvebase