CVE-2023-26423

ZDI-CAN-20160: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC AcroForm insertItemAt Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.8
EPSS: EPSS 3.14 % · percentile 88 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-04-12
Updated: 2025-03-05
Assigner: adobe
NVD status: Modified

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 23.001.20093 (and earlier) and 20.005.30441 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	adobe
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-30243
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-26423

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0302 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Adobe Acrobat · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.3005 ≤ 20.005.30441
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 15.008.20082 ≤ 23.001.20093
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.3005 ≤ 20.005.30441
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 15.008.20082 ≤ 23.001.20093

Affected products

Product	Versions
Adobe · Acrobat Reader	affected unspecified ≤ 23.001.20093 ; affected unspecified ≤ 20.005.30441 ; affected unspecified ≤ None

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb23-24.html

Sources

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