Description

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-27158

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.8

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

Affected Products

Vendor: Adobe

Product: Acrobat Reader

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.49% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-09 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27158
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb25-14.html

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