CVE-2021-39853

published 2021-09-29

CVE-2021-39853: Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer…

Priority P4 25 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C N I N A H

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	acrobat	20.001.30005 – 20.004.30006	—
adobe	acrobat_dc	15.008.20082 – 21.005.20060	—
adobe	acrobat_dc	15.008.20082 – 21.005.20058	—
adobe	acrobat_reader	20.001.30005 – 20.004.30006	—
adobe	acrobat_reader	unspecified – DC 2021 July	—
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	15.008.20082 – 21.005.20060	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v3.0 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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