CVE-2021-21089

LowCVSS 3.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to locally escalate privileges in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 3.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
AdobeAcrobat Reader>= unspecified, <= 2020.013.20074; >= unspecified, <= 2020.001.30018; >= unspecified, <= 2017.011.30188; >= unspecified, <= None

References

Timeline

Published
Sep 30, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-21089: Low severity, CVSS 3.3 | Vulnix