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🛡️ CVE-2023-29320 — acrobat

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-657 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 23.003.20244 (and earlier) and 20.005.30467 (and earlier) are affected by an Violation of Secure Design Principles vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user by bypassing the API blacklisting feature. 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.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-29320 is classified as CWE-657: Violation of Secure Design Principles. The product violates well-established principles for secure design.

Affected software

CVE-2023-29320 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • acrobat (from 20.001.30005 up to 20.005.30514.10514)
  • acrobat-dc (from 15.008.20082 up to 23.003.20269)
  • acrobat-reader (from 20.001.30005 up to 20.005.30514.10514)
  • acrobat-reader-dc (from 15.008.20082 up to 23.003.20269)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 August 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

Other advisories for this package

acrobat has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-657: Violation of Secure Design Principles) in other software:

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-657
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
acrobat 20.001.30005 20.005.30514.10514
acrobat-dc 15.008.20082 23.003.20269
acrobat-reader 20.001.30005 20.005.30514.10514
acrobat-reader-dc 15.008.20082 23.003.20269

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