Acrobat Reader DC Invalid Memory Read Due To An Uninitialized Pointer (Adobe Acrobat Reader)

CVE-2021-21057
MEDIUM 6.6

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.13 % · percentile 66 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
adobe
NVD status
Modified

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by a null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted PDF file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve denial of service 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-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Hadobe
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:HNVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Adobe · Acrobat Readeraffected unspecified ≤ 2020.013.20074 ; affected unspecified ≤ 2020.001.30018 ; affected unspecified ≤ 2017.011.30188 ; 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