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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2021-39838

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC AcroForm buttonGetCaption Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of the AcroForm buttonGetCaption action 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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Adobe Acrobat Reader

  • unspecified to ≤ DC 2021 Julyaffected
  • unspecified to ≤ 20.0-Classic 2021 Julyaffected
  • unspecified to ≤ 17.0-Classic 2021 Julyaffected
  • unspecified to ≤ Noneaffected

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