CVE-2020-24433CWE-284

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component

High · published November 5, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
16%
Percentile
96.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.15870 · 96.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
Published
2020-11-05T19:32Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 NOV 19:32Z
    Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component
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