CVE-2023-38224 (GCVE-0-2023-38224)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-10 13:17
Modified
2025-02-27 21:05
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 23.003.20244 (and earlier) and 20.005.30467 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free 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.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader Version: 0   ≤ 23.003.20244
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