title: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Local Privilege Escalation via Installer Component
description: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable a user without administrator privileges to delete arbitrary files and potentially execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to socially engineer a victim, or the attacker must already have some access to the environment.
problem types: Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
affected:
{
product: Acrobat Reader
vendor: Adobe
versions:
lessThanOrEqual: 2017.011.30175, status: affected, version: unspecified, versionType: custom
lessThanOrEqual: 2020.012.20048, status: affected, version: unspecified, versionType: custom
lessThanOrEqual: 2020.001.30005, status: affected, version: unspecified, versionType: custom
lessThanOrEqual: None, status: affected, version: unspecified, versionType: custom
}
metrics:
cvssV3_1: [
attackComplexity: LOW
attackVector: LOCAL
availabilityImpact: HIGH
baseScore: 7.8
baseSeverity: HIGH
confidentialityImpact: HIGH
integrityImpact: HIGH
privilegesRequired: NONE
scope: UNCHANGED
userInteraction: REQUIRED
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
version: 3.1
]