CVE-2021-44701: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 20.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (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: from 20.001.30005, up to and including 20.004.30017; from 17.011.30180, up to and including 17.011.30204
• Adobe Acrobat DC: from 21.001.20149, up to and including 21.007.20099
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 20.001.30005, up to and including 20.004.30017; from 17.011.30180, up to and including 17.011.30204
• Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: from 21.001.20149, up to and including 21.007.20099

Published 2022-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.