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CVE-2024-20733: [ZS-VR-23-360] Adobe Acrobat Reader Parsing OTF font Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

5.5 CVSS

Description

Acrobat Reader versions 20.005.30539, 23.008.20470 and earlier are affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability that could lead to an application denial-of-service. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-20733

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem Types

Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)

Affected Products

Vendor: Adobe

Product: Acrobat Reader

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.34% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 56.01% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-23 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20733
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb24-07.html

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