The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote macOS host is a version prior to 2017.011.30199, 2020.004.30006, or 2021.005.20058. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could     leverage this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary memory information in the context of the current user.
    Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
    (CVE-2021-35988)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could     leverage this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary memory information in the context of the current user.
    Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
    (CVE-2021-35987)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by a Path traversal vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage     this vulnerability to achieve 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. (CVE-2021-28644,     CVE-2021-35980)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an Use-after-free vulnerability. An authenticated attacker could leverage     this vulnerability to achieve 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. (CVE-2021-28640)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by a Type Confusion vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage     this vulnerability to disclose sensitive memory information in the context of the current user.
    Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
    (CVE-2021-28643)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an Use-after-free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage     this vulnerability to achieve 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. (CVE-2021-28639,     CVE-2021-28641, CVE-2021-35981, CVE-2021-35983)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds write vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could     leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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.
    (CVE-2021-28642)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could     leverage this vulnerability achieve arbitrary read / write system information in the context of the     current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious     file. (CVE-2021-28637)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an Type Confusion vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage     this vulnerability to read arbitrary system information in the context of the current user. Exploitation     of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-35986)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by a Heap-based Buffer overflow vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker     could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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.
    (CVE-2021-28638)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability. 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.
    (CVE-2021-35985)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability. An authenticated attacker could     leverage this vulnerability achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user.
    Exploitation of this issue does not requires user interaction. (CVE-2021-35984)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability. An attacker with access     to the victim's C:/ folder could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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. (CVE-2021-28636)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command. An     authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution on the host     machine in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a     victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-28634)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197     (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage     this vulnerability to achieve 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. (CVE-2021-28635)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Adobe Acrobat < 2017.011.30199 / 2020.004.30006 / 2021.005.20058 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB21-51) (macOS)

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