CVE-2021-21042
Published: 11 February 2021
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-8434
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
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.