CVE-2020-9697

Acrobat Dc vulnerability

CVSS

5.5

EPSS

3.1%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2020.009.20074 and earlier, 2020.001.30002, 2017.011.30171 and earlier, and 2015.006.30523 and earlier have a disclosure of sensitive data vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to memory leak.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Acrobat Dc

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory (Memory Leak)

Published

2020-08-19

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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