CVE detail
CVE-2020-24433
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.
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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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- Adobe addressed 4 critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat productsSecurity Affairs
Adobe has addressed 14 vulnerabilities in its Acrobat products, including critical flaws that can be exploited by attackers for arbitrary code execution. Adobe has addressed 14 vulnerabilities in its Acrobat products, including critical flaws that can be exploited by attackers for arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities impact the Windows and macOS versions of Acrobat DC, […]
newssecurityaffairs.comNov 3, 2020, 5:44 PM
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