Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-21042

Medium

Published: 11 February 2021

Published
11 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.4497 97.7th percentile
Risk Priority 40 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-21042 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 2.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Acrobat Reader DC 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 that could lead to arbitrary disclosure of information in the memory stack. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to…

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bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

adobe
acrobat
17.0 — 17.011.30188 · 20.0 — 20.001.30018
adobe
acrobat dc
≤ 20.013.20074
adobe
acrobat reader
17.0 — 17.011.30188 · 20.0 — 20.001.300183
adobe
acrobat reader dc
≤ 20.013.20074

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References