🛡️ CVE-2023-26369 — acrobat

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-787 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Acrobat Reader versions 23.003.20284 (and earlier), 20.005.30516 (and earlier) and 20.005.30514 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-26369 is classified as CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write. Data is written past the end or before the start of a buffer, corrupting whatever is stored there.

Affected software

CVE-2023-26369 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • acrobat (from 20.001.3005 up to 20.005.30524)
  • acrobat-dc (from 15.007.20033 up to 23.006.20320)
  • acrobat-reader (from 20.001.3005 up to 20.005.30524)
  • acrobat-reader-dc (from 15.007.20033 up to 23.006.20320)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 September 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

helpx.adobe.com
helpx.adobe.com
www.cisa.gov

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-787
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-13
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
acrobat 20.001.3005 20.005.30524
acrobat-dc 15.007.20033 23.006.20320
acrobat-reader 20.001.3005 20.005.30524
acrobat-reader-dc 15.007.20033 23.006.20320

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