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High · 7.7 CVE-2020-24428 EUVD-2020-17148GHSA-q3vc-h49w-254q

Acrobat Reader DC for macOS Race Condition Vulnerability Could Lead to Privilege Escalation

Published Nov 5, 2020 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by adobe

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) for macOS are affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could result in local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Adobe Acrobat Reader unspecified – ≤ 2017.011.30175, unspecified – ≤ 2020.012.20048, unspecified – ≤ 2020.001.30005, unspecified – ≤ None —

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