CVE-2021-45062: Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability…

PriorityP350high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

16.50%

96.7th 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 use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Format event actions that could result in 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.

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

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.09.3CRITICALAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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