CVE-2020-24433: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 15.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable a user without administrator privileges to delete arbitrary files and potentially execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to socially engineer a victim, or the attacker must already have some access to the environment.

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.