CVE-2023-38246

HIGH

Adobe Acrobat Reader <23.003.20244,20.005.30467 - RCE

Title source: llm

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 23.003.20244 (and earlier) and 20.005.30467 (and earlier) are affected by an Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability 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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb23-30.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0034

EPSS Percentile 26.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-824

Status published

Products (5)

adobe/acrobat 20.001.30005 - 20.005.30516.10516

Adobe/Acrobat Reader < 23.003.20244

adobe/acrobat_dc 15.008.20082 - 23.003.20269

adobe/acrobat_reader 20.001.30005 - 20.005.30516.10516

adobe/acrobat_reader_dc 15.008.20082 - 23.003.20269

Published Aug 10, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026