Acrobat Reader | Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426) (Adobe Adobe Acrobat)

CVE-2026-80159
MEDIUM 4.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 9 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
adobe
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Acrobat Reader is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker with high privileges could leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access. Exploit depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nadobe
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Adobe · Adobe Acrobataffected 0 ≤ 26.002.21900 ; unaffected 26.002.21901
Adobe · Acrobat Readeraffected 0 ≤ 26.002.21900 ; unaffected 26.002.21901
Adobe · Acrobat 2024affected 0 ≤ 24.001.30383 ; unaffected 24.001.30429

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