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CVE-2024-49531:
Adobe Acrobat Reader Continuous vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2024-49531 is a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability affecting Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 24.005.20307, 24.001.30213, 24.001.30193, 20.005.30730, 20.005.30710 and earlier. The vulnerability was disclosed on December 10, 2024, and affects both Windows and macOS operating systems (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.5 (Medium). The attack vector is local (AV:L) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requires no privileges (PR:N), and needs user interaction (UI:R). The scope is unchanged (S:U), with no impact on confidentiality (C:N) or integrity (I:N), but high impact on availability (A:H) (NVD).
Impact
When successfully exploited, this vulnerability could result in an application denial-of-service condition. The primary impact is on the availability of the application, as an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Adobe has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update to the latest version of Adobe Acrobat and Reader (Adobe Advisory).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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