SecuriTricks - CVE-2024-39425

Description

Acrobat Reader versions 20.005.30636, 24.002.20965, 24.002.20964, 24.001.30123 and earlier are affected by a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue require local low-privilege access to the affected system and attack complexity is high.

Product(s) Impacted

Product	Versions
Acrobat Reader	['20.005.30636', '24.002.20965', '24.002.20964', '24.001.30123 and earlier']

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb24-57.html

CVSS Score

7.0 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

Attack Vector: LOCAL
Attack Complexity: HIGH
Privileges Required: LOW
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
Integrity Impact: HIGH
Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 14, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 14, 2024, 5:49 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

psirt@adobe.com

CVE-2024-39425