Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30763/24.001.30235/25.001.20521 service null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30763/24.001.30235/25.001.20521. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component service. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-47111. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 20.005.30763/24.001.30235/25.001.20521. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code of the component service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30235, 20.005.30763, 25.001.20521 and earlier are affected by a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application, causing a disruption in service. 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-2025-47111 since 04/30/2025. 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. 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 07/25/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 238099 (Adobe Reader < 20.005.30774 / 25.001.20529 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB25-57) (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 (238099). 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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• 20.005.30763
• 24.001.30235
• 25.001.20521

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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