Adobe Acrobat Reader privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 2015.006.30508/2017.011.30156/2019.021.20061 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. This manipulation causes privileges management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-3762. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 2015.006.30508/2017.011.30156/2019.021.20061 (Document Reader Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2019.021.20061 and earlier, 2017.011.30156 and earlier, 2017.011.30156 and earlier, and 2015.006.30508 and earlier have a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary file system write.

The weakness was shared 02/11/2020 as APSB20-05 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-3762. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/13/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2015.006.30510, 2017.011.30158 or 2020.006.20034 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The entries VDB-150124, VDB-150125, VDB-150126 and VDB-150127 are related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Document Reader Software

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• Adobe

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• Acrobat Reader

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• 2015.006.30508
• 2017.011.30156
• 2019.021.20061

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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