CVE-2023-29299: Adobe Acrobat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 23.003.20244 (and earlier) and 20.005.30467 (and earlier) are affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could lead to Application denial-of-service. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability if the default PowerShell Set-ExecutionPolicy is set to Unrestricted, making the attack complexity high. 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 20.005.30516.10516; from 20.001.30005, before 20.005.30514.10514 (fixed in 20.005.30514.10514)
• Adobe Acrobat DC: from 15.008.20082, before 23.003.20269 (fixed in 23.003.20269)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 20.001.30005, before 20.005.30516.10516 (fixed in 20.005.30516.10516); from 20.001.30005, before 20.005.30514.10514 (fixed in 20.005.30514.10514)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: from 15.008.20082, before 23.003.20269 (fixed in 23.003.20269)

Published 2023-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.