CVE-2021-44740: Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference…

PriorityP425medium5.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

3.63%

88.4th percentile

Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. 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

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	acrobat	17.011.30059 – 17.011.30204	—
adobe	acrobat	20.001.30005 – 20.004.30017	—
adobe	acrobat_dc	15.008.20082 – 21.007.20099	—
adobe	acrobat_reader	17.011.30059 – 17.011.30204	—
adobe	acrobat_reader	20.001.30005 – 20.004.30017	—
adobe	acrobat_reader	unspecified – 21.007.20099	—
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	15.008.20082 – 21.007.20099	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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