Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30748/24.001.30225/25.001.20428 uninitialized pointer

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30748/24.001.30225/25.001.20428. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes uninitialized pointer. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-27158. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30748/24.001.30225/25.001.20428. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uninitialized pointer vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-824. The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30225, 20.005.30748, 25.001.20428 and earlier are affected by an Access of Uninitialized Pointer 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 advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-27158 since 02/19/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. 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. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price 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). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Document Reader Software

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• Adobe

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• 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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