CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80159

MediumCVSS 4.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

Acrobat Reader is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker with high privileges could leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access. Exploitation depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. Requires user interaction - the victim must open a malicious file.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential privilege escalation, which could allow an attacker to gain a higher level of access in the system, threatening data integrity and confidentiality.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update Acrobat Reader to the latest version with fixes. Also restrict user privileges and educate users to open only trusted files.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Acrobat Reader is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker with high privileges could leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access. Exploit depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS