CVE-2020-24433

HIGH

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC <2020.012.20048 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.1524
EPSS Percentile 96.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (6)
adobe/acrobat < 20.001.30005
adobe/acrobat_dc < 17.011.30175
adobe/acrobat_dc < 20.012.20048
adobe/acrobat_reader < 20.001.30005
adobe/acrobat_reader_dc < 17.011.30175
adobe/acrobat_reader_dc < 20.012.20048
Published Nov 05, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026