cve-2023-21586
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-18 23:32
Modified
2024-12-19 16:39
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS score ?
2.14% (0.83225)
Summary
Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.003.20282 (and earlier), 22.003.20281 (and earlier) and 20.005.30418 (and earlier) are affected by a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
References
psirt@adobe.comhttps://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb23-01.htmlVendor Advisory
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Vendor Product Version
Adobe Acrobat Reader Version: 0   ≤ 22.003.20281
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