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CVE-2020-24437

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.46549
Risk score
47.49
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2020-11-05
Modified
2024-09-16
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2020-17157, GHSA-R3X3-QFC2-2XCQ
Products
Adobe:Acrobat Reader unspecified ≤2017.011.30175, Adobe:Acrobat Reader unspecified ≤2020.001.30005, Adobe:Acrobat Reader unspecified ≤2020.012.20048, Adobe:Acrobat Reader unspecified ≤None
Sources
euvd EUVD-2020-17157

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Format event actions 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.

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