VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-24433

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability15.87%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-11-05
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • psirt@adobe.com: CWE-284
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references