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

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A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30748/24.001.30225/25.001.20428 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component File Handler. Performing a manipulation results in out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-27161. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30748/24.001.30225/25.001.20428. This affects an unknown part of the component File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on 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 out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a crafted file, which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code 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 uniquely identified as CVE-2025-27161 since 02/19/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for 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 $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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