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Fencer Intel
high 7.8

CVE-2020-24433 in the critical feed json

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-17153

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.9%
EPSS 15.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable a user without administrator privileges to delete arbitrary files and potentially execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to socially engineer a victim, or the attacker must already have some access to the environment.

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Exploit prediction

15.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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