{"id":"CVE-2020-24428","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-24428","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:42:45.544Z","title":"Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) for macOS are affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could result in local privilege…","description":"Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) for macOS are affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could result in local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.","published":"2020-11-05T20:15:16.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:05:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@adobe.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-367"],"affected":["adobe/acrobat","adobe/acrobat dc","adobe/acrobat reader","adobe/acrobat reader dc"],"epss":{"score":0.02262,"percentile":0.82872,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.26%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb20-67.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@adobe.com"},{"url":"https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb20-67.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24428","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}