CVE-2020-24433 (GCVE-0-2020-24433)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-05 19:32 – Updated: 2024-09-16 21:57
VLAI
Title
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Adobe Acrobat Reader Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2017.011.30175 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2020.012.20048 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2020.001.30005 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ None (custom)
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Date Public
2020-11-03 00:00
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