Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-39863

High

Published: 29 September 2021

Published
29 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.2214 95.9th percentile
Risk Priority 29 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-39863 is a high-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 4.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by a Buffer Overflow vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted PDF file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution…

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in the context of the current user. 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 dc
15.008.20082 — 21.005.20060 · 15.008.20082 — 21.005.20058 · 15.008.20082 — 21.005.20058
adobe
acrobat reader dc
15.008.20082 — 21.005.20060
adobe
acrobat
20.001.30005 — 20.004.30006
adobe
acrobat reader
20.001.30005 — 20.004.30006
adobe
acrobat 2017
17.011.30059 — 17.011.30199
adobe
acrobat reader 2017
17.011.30059 — 17.011.30199

Mitigating Controls

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

References