CVE-2021-44741: Adobe Acrobat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 3.6% 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 Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service 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 17.011.30059, up to and including 17.011.30204; from 20.001.30005, up to and including 20.004.30017
• Adobe Acrobat DC: from 15.008.20082, up to and including 21.007.20099
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 17.011.30059, up to and including 17.011.30204; from 20.001.30005, up to and including 20.004.30017
• Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: from 15.008.20082, up to and including 21.007.20099

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