Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-49531

Medium

Published: 10 December 2024

Published
10 December 2024
Modified
21 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.7th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-49531 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Acrobat Reader versions 24.005.20307, 24.001.30213, 24.001.30193, 20.005.30730, 20.005.30710 and earlier are affected by a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability that could result in an application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application, leading to a denial-of-service condition.…

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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
20.001.30002 — 20.005.30748 · 24.001.30159 — 24.001.30225
adobe
acrobat dc
15.007.20033 — 24.005.20320
adobe
acrobat reader
20.001.30002 — 20.005.30748
adobe
acrobat reader dc
15.007.20033 — 24.005.20320

Mitigating Controls

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

References