CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-81979

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

Acrobat Reader is affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction, such as opening a malicious file.

Risk Assessment

Risk of memory corruption and potential system takeover by an attacker, potentially leading to data security breaches.

Recommendation

Immediately install security patches for Acrobat Reader. Also avoid opening files from unknown sources.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Acrobat Reader is affected by an out-of-bounds write 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.

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