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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader

NJCCIC Advisory

Original Release Date: 8/12/2020

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Adobe Acrobat is a family of software developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print, and manage files in PDF format. Adobe Reader is the free version within the Adobe Acrobat family of software. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could result in arbitrary code execution. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. If this application has been configured to have fewer user rights on the system, exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could have less impact than if it was configured with administrative rights.

Threat Intelligence

There are no reports of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.

Systems Affected

Acrobat DC 2020.012.20041 and earlier versions 
Acrobat Reader DC 2020.012.20041 and earlier versions 
Acrobat 2020 2020.001.30005 and earlier versions
Acrobat Reader 2020 2020.001.30005 and earlier versions
Acrobat 2017 2017.011.30175 and earlier versions 
Acrobat Reader 2017 2017.011.30175 and earlier versions
Acrobat 2015 2015.006.30527 and earlier versions
Acrobat Reader 2015 2015.006.30527 and earlier versions

Risk

Government:

Large and medium government entities: High
Small government entities: Medium

Businesses:

Large and medium government entities: High
Small government entities: Medium

Home Users: Low

Technical Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Details of the vulnerabilities are as follows:

One disclosure of sensitive data vulnerability that could cause memory to be leaked. (CVE-2020-9697)
One security bypass vulnerability that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges on an already compromised system (CVE-2020-9714)
Two out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2020-9693, CVE-2020-9694)
Two security bypass vulnerabilities that could lead to bypassing application security features. (CVE-2020-9696, CVE-2020-9703)
Two stack exhaustion vulnerabilities that could cause application denial-of-service. (CVE-2020-9702, CVE-2020-9703)
Eleven out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities that could cause information disclosure. (CVE-2020-9723, CVE-2020-9705, CVE-2020-9706, CVE-2020-9707, CVE-2020-9710, CVE-2020-9716, CVE-2020-9717, CVE-2020-9718, CVE-2020-9719, CVE-2020-9720, CVE-2020-9721)
Five buffer error vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2020-9698, CVE-2020-9699, CVE-2020-9700, CVE-2020-9701, CVE-2020-9704)
One user-after-free vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2020-9715, CVE-2020-9722)

References

Adobe

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