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01 Record

CVE-2021-39863

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: adobe
CNA base score7.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

02 Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
13.19% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 96.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2021-09-29 15:40Z5 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-17 03:13Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2021-08-23
Assigning CNA
adobe
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.8)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant
Data version
5.1
Document digest
03c60ffbf571c024130d889205f99ecbe1425b2587aab711d4b336a7b1cb29fd

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
AdobeAcrobat Reader<= DC 2021 July, <= 20.0-Classic 2021 July, <= 17.0-Classic 2021 July, <= None—

06 References