The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote Windows host is a version prior to 2017.011.30202, 2020.004.30015, or 2021.007.20091. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a Type Confusion vulnerability. An attacker could leverage this     vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue     requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-39841)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a Buffer Overflow vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted PDF file.
    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-2021-39863)

  - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC add-on for Internet Explorer versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006     (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by an Information Disclosure vulnerability. An     unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to check for existence of local files.
    Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must visit an attacker controlled     web page. (CVE-2021-39857)

  - Acrobat Reader DC ActiveX Control versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and     2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by an Information Disclosure vulnerability. An unauthenticated     attacker could leverage this vulnerability to obtain NTLMv2 credentials. Exploitation of this issue     requires user interaction in that a victim must visit an attacker controlled web page. (CVE-2021-39856)

  - Acrobat Reader DC ActiveX Control versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and     2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by an Information Disclosure vulnerability. An unauthenticated     attacker could leverage this vulnerability to obtain NTLMv2 credentials. Exploitation of this issue     requires user interaction in that a victim must open a maliciously crafted Microsoft Office file, or visit     an attacker controlled web page. (CVE-2021-39855)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of     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-2021-39844, CVE-2021-39858, CVE-2021-39861)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds write 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. (CVE-2021-39843)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a stack overflow vulnerability due to insecure handling of a crafted PDF     file, potentially resulting in memory corruption in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires     user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted PDF file in Acrobat Reader. (CVE-2021-39845,     CVE-2021-39846)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability. A local attacker with     non-administrative privileges can plant a malicious DLL to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context     of the current user via DLL hijacking. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction.
    (CVE-2021-35982)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive     memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of     this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-39859)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability when processing AcroForms that could result     in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to exploit     this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
    (CVE-2021-39840)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are 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. (CVE-2021-39842)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of the AcroForm getItem     action 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. (CVE-2021-39839)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of the AcroForm     buttonGetCaption action 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.
    (CVE-2021-39838)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of the AcroForm     deleteItemAt action 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.
    (CVE-2021-39837)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of the AcroForm     buttonGetIcon action 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.
    (CVE-2021-39836)

  - Acrobat Pro DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and     earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could     leverage this vulnerability to disclose sensitive user memory. Exploitation of this issue requires user     interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-39860)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (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-2021-39849, CVE-2021-39850, CVE-2021-39851, CVE-2021-39852, CVE-2021-39853, CVE-2021-39854)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability when processing AcroForm listbox that could     result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to     exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
    (CVE-2021-40725)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199     (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability when processing AcroForm field that could     result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to     exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
    (CVE-2021-40726)

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

Detections

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Adobe Acrobat < 2017.011.30202 / 2020.004.30015 / 2021.007.20091 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB21-55)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153363

Version 1.9