CVE-2021-28634

Summary

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197 (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution on the host machine in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 2020.004.30005affected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 2017.011.30197affected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 2021.005.20054affected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= Noneaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE-78)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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