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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2021-39863

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
adobe

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 Buffer Overflow vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted PDF file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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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