CVE-2020-24428

HighCVSS 7.7/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.7/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-367

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 5, 2020
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2020-24428: High severity, CVSS 7.7 | Vulnix