Adobe Acrobat Reader type confusion

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30655/24.002.21005/24.001.30159/24.003.20054. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to type confusion. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-45112. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30655/24.002.21005/24.001.30159/24.003.20054 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a type confusion vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-843. The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Acrobat Reader versions 24.002.21005, 24.001.30159, 20.005.30655, 24.003.20054 and earlier are affected by a Type Confusion vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. This issue occurs when a resource is accessed using a type that is not compatible with the actual object type, leading to a logic error that an attacker could exploit. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

The advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-45112 since 08/22/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/20/2024).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Document Reader Software

Vendor

• Adobe

Name

• Acrobat Reader

Version

• 20.005.30655
• 24.001.30159
• 24.002.21005
• 24.003.20054

License

• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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