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.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acrobat | Adobe | * | 20.001.30005 (including) |
| Acrobat_dc | Adobe | * | 17.011.30175 (including) |
| Acrobat_dc | Adobe | * | 20.012.20048 (including) |
| Acrobat_reader | Adobe | * | 20.001.30005 (including) |
| Acrobat_reader_dc | Adobe | * | 17.011.30175 (including) |
| Acrobat_reader_dc | Adobe | * | 20.012.20048 (including) |
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: