CVE-2025-27161 (GCVE-0-2025-27161)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-11 18:10
Modified
2025-03-12 04:01
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30225, 20.005.30748, 25.001.20428 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a crafted file, which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Adobe Acrobat Reader Version: 0   ≤ 25.001.20428
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