CVE-2025-27158

Acrobat Reader | Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824)

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.45 % · percentile 39 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-03-11
Updated: 2026-02-26
Assigner: adobe
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30225, 20.005.30748, 25.001.20428 and earlier are affected by an Access of Uninitialized Pointer 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-824

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-7734
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-27158

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0201 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Adobe · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.30002 < 20.005.30763
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 24.0.0 < 24.001.30235
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 15.008.20082 < 25.001.20432
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.30002 < 20.005.30763
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 15.008.20082 < 25.001.20432

Affected products

Product	Versions
Adobe · Acrobat Reader	affected 0 ≤ 25.001.20428

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