CVE-2021-21041 (GCVE-0-2021-21041)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-11 19:42 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:18
VLAI
Title
Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution
Summary
Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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.
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-416 - Use After Free (CWE-416)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Adobe Acrobat Reader Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2020.013.20074 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2020.001.30018 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2017.011.30188 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ None (custom)
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Date Public
2021-02-09 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.