CVE-2020-24433: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component

First published: Thu Nov 05 2020(Updated: )

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.

Credit: psirt@adobe.com

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