CVE-2020-3800
Adobe Acrobat Reader Continuous vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2020.006.20034 and earlier, 2017.011.30158 and earlier, 2015.006.30510 and earlier have a memory address leak vulnerability that was discovered in December 2019. The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2020-3800 and was publicly disclosed through Adobe's security bulletin (Adobe Security, CVE Details).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a memory address leak vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N). This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low complexity to exploit, needs no authentication, and can result in partial information disclosure with no impact on integrity or availability (Rapid7).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to information disclosure through memory address leakage (CVE Details).

Mitigation and workarounds

Adobe has addressed this vulnerability in their security update APSB20-13. Users are advised to update to the latest version of Adobe Acrobat and Reader (Adobe Security).

Community reactions

The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Duy Phan Thanh (bit) of STAR Labs (Adobe Security).

Additional resources


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