Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Adobe Acrobat DC Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilties

Discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos

Overview

Today, Talos is releasing details of a new vulnerabilities within Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most popular and most feature-rich PDF reader. It has a big user base, is usually a default PDF reader on systems and integrates into web browsers as a plugin for rendering PDFs. As such, tricking a user into visiting a malicious web page or sending a specially crafted email attachment can be enough to trigger these vulnerabilities.