CVE-2020-24428 (GCVE-0-2020-24428)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-05 19:31 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:21
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Title
Acrobat Reader DC for macOS Race Condition Vulnerability Could Lead to Privilege Escalation
Summary
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 time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could result in local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Severity ?
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (CWE-367)
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Adobe Acrobat Reader Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2017.011.30175 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2020.012.20048 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2020.001.30005 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ None (custom)
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