CVE-2026-80159

Summary

Acrobat Reader is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker with high privileges could leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access. Exploit depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
AdobeAdobe Acrobat0 <= 26.002.21900affected
AdobeAdobe Acrobat26.002.21901unaffected
AdobeAcrobat Reader0 <= 26.002.21900affected
AdobeAcrobat Reader26.002.21901unaffected
AdobeAcrobat 20240 <= 24.001.30383affected
AdobeAcrobat 202424.001.30429unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426)

References