CVE-2026-81990: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Acrobat Reader is affected by a Use After Free vulnerability 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 24.001.20604, before 24.001.30429 (fixed in 24.001.30429)
• Adobe Acrobat DC: from 15.008.20082, before 26.002.21901 (fixed in 26.002.21901)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: from 15.008.20082, before 26.002.21901 (fixed in 26.002.21901)

Published 2026-09-08. Last modified 2026-09-10.