🛡️ CVE-2024-20731 — acrobat

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Acrobat Reader versions 20.005.30539, 23.008.20470 and earlier are affected by a Use After Free 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-2024-20731 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2024-20731 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • acrobat (from 20.001.30005 up to 20.005.30574)
  • acrobat-dc (from 15.008.20082 up to 23.008.20533)
  • acrobat-reader (from 20.001.30005 up to 20.005.30574)
  • acrobat-reader-dc (from 15.008.20082 up to 23.008.20533)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 February 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

helpx.adobe.com
www.talosintelligence.com
helpx.adobe.com
www.talosintelligence.com

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-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-02-15
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
acrobat 20.001.30005 20.005.30574
acrobat-dc 15.008.20082 23.008.20533
acrobat-reader 20.001.30005 20.005.30574
acrobat-reader-dc 15.008.20082 23.008.20533

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