CVE-2021-40724: Adobe Acrobat Reader

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Acrobat Reader for Android versions 21.8.0 (and earlier) are affected by a Path traversal vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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 Reader: up to and including 21.8.0

Published 2021-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.