CVE-2026-81973

Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416)

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.38 % · percentile 31 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-09-08
Updated: 2026-09-09
Assigner: adobe
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Acrobat Reader is 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-2026-74104
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-81973

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1140 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Adobe · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 24.001.20604 < 24.001.30429
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 15.008.20082 < 26.002.21901
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 15.008.20082 < 26.002.21901

Affected products

Product	Versions
Adobe · Adobe Acrobat	affected 0 ≤ 26.002.21900 ; unaffected 26.002.21901
Adobe · Acrobat Reader	affected 0 ≤ 26.002.21900 ; unaffected 26.002.21901
Adobe · Acrobat 2024	affected 0 ≤ 24.001.30383 ; unaffected 24.001.30429

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb26-141.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