CVE-2020-24437: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 46.5% 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) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Format event actions 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.

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.