Adobe Acrobat Reader privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 2015.006.30518/2017.011.30166/2020.006.20042 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation causes privileges management. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2020-9614. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 2015.006.30518/2017.011.30166/2020.006.20042 (Document Reader Software). It has been declared as critical. 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 2020.006.20042 and earlier, 2017.011.30166 and earlier, 2017.011.30166 and earlier, and 2015.006.30518 and earlier have a security bypass vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to security feature bypass.

The weakness was disclosed 05/12/2020 as APSB20-24 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-9614. 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 05/16/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2015.006.30523, 2017.011.30171 or 2020.009.20063 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Additional details are provided at zdnet.com. The entries VDB-155342, VDB-155343, VDB-155344 and VDB-155345 are pretty similar. 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

Name

• Acrobat Reader

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• 2015.006.30518
• 2017.011.30166
• 2020.006.20042

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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