Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30418/22.003.20281/22.003.20282 stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30418/22.003.20281/22.003.20282 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-21610. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30418/22.003.20281/22.003.20282 (Document Reader Software). This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.003.20282 (and earlier), 22.003.20281 (and earlier) and 20.005.30418 (and earlier) are affected by a Stack-based Buffer Overflow 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.

The weakness was presented 01/19/2023 as apsb23-01. It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-21610 since 12/01/2022. 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 $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/21/2025).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-25777). 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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• 20.005.30418
• 22.003.20281
• 22.003.20282

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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