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High · 7.8 Public exploit CVE-2021-40724 EUVD-2021-27889GHSA-29r2-9wmj-m244

Adobe Acrobat Reader Android Abritrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Oct 15, 2021 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by adobe

Vendor: Adobe Product: Reader Mobile

Description

Acrobat Reader for Android versions 21.8.0 (and earlier) are affected by a Path traversal vulnerability. 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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Adobe Reader Mobile unspecified – ≤ 21.8.0, unspecified – ≤ None —

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 1 repository

  • tinopreter/DocViewerExploitApp ★ 6 · Jun 15, 2025

    This is an Exploit App I made when solving the DocumentViewer challenge (CVE-2021-40724) from MobileHackingLab. It will download a libdocviewe_pro.so library from your local machine unto the vulnerab…

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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