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High · 7.8 CVE-2020-24433 EUVD-2020-17153GHSA-5fm6-8c62-xw4m

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component

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

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable a user without administrator privileges to delete arbitrary files and potentially execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to socially engineer a victim, or the attacker must already have some access to the environment.

Affected products

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

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