THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-24429
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-24429

Acrobat vulnerability

CVSS
7.7
EPSS
3.0%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) for macOS are affected by a signature verification bypass that could result in local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Acrobat
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-347 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Published
2020-11-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-24429

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-24429.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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