Adobe Acrobat Pro DC DocMedia Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Adobe Acrobat Reader)

CVE-2021-39841
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 11.70 % · percentile 96 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
adobe
NVD status
Modified

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by a Type Confusion vulnerability. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-843 — Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Adobe · Acrobat Readeraffected unspecified ≤ DC 2021 July ; affected unspecified ≤ 20.0-Classic 2021 July ; affected unspecified ≤ 17.0-Classic 2021 July ; affected unspecified ≤ None

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD