Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30748/24.001.30225/25.001.20428 out-of-bounds

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30748/24.001.30225/25.001.20428. It has been rated as problematic. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-27163. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30748/24.001.30225/25.001.20428. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30225, 20.005.30748, 25.001.20428 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-27163 since 02/19/2025. 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. 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 03/12/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232599 (Adobe Reader < 20.005.30763 / 25.001.20432 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB25-14) (macOS)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (232599). 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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• 20.005.30748
• 24.001.30225
• 25.001.20428

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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