CVE-2024-20747

TALOS-2023-1908 - Adobe Acrobat Reader Font CharStrings INDEX out-of-bounds read vulnerability

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.5
EPSS: EPSS 2.38 % · percentile 84 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-02-15
Updated: 2025-02-13
Assigner: adobe
NVD status: Modified

Description

Acrobat Reader versions 20.005.30539, 23.008.20470 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. 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	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	adobe
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-125

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-18462
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-20747

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-0123 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Adobe · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 15.008.20082 < 23.008.20533
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 15.008.20082 < 23.008.20533
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.30005 < 20.005.30574
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.30005 < 20.005.30574

Affected products

Product	Versions
Adobe · Acrobat Reader	affected 0 ≤ 23.008.20470

References

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