CVE-2020-24428: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 7.7. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) for macOS are affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could result in local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: up to and including 20.001.30005
• Adobe Acrobat DC: up to and including 17.011.30175; up to and including 20.012.20048
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: up to and including 20.001.30005
• Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: up to and including 17.011.30175; up to and including 20.012.20048

Published 2020-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.