CVE-2020-24432: Acrobat Reader DC Arbitrary JavaScript Execution in PDF Documents

First published: Thu Nov 05 2020(Updated: )

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by an improper input validation vulnerability that could result in arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the current user. To exploit this issue, an attacker must acquire and then modify a certified PDF document that is trusted by the victim. The attacker then needs to convince the victim to open the document.

Credit: psirt@adobe.com

Never miss a vulnerability like this again

Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.

Read MoreStart Free Trial

• agent/type
• collector/nvd-index
• agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
• agent/weakness
• agent/references
• agent/author
• agent/softwarecombine
• agent/description
• collector/mitre-cve
• source/MITRE
• agent/last-modified-date
• agent/title
• agent/severity
• agent/tags
• agent/first-publish-date
• agent/event
• vendor/adobe
• canonical/adobe acrobat reader
• version/adobe acrobat reader/20.001.30005
• canonical/adobe acrobat dc
• version/adobe acrobat dc/17.011.30175
• version/adobe acrobat dc/20.012.20048
• canonical/adobe acrobat reader dc
• version/adobe acrobat reader dc/17.011.30175
• version/adobe acrobat reader dc/20.012.20048
• vendor/apple
• canonical/apple macos
• vendor/microsoft
• canonical/microsoft windows