CVE-2020-24433

highpriority · track · 37EPSS 0.159 · 97 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

15.9% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

16 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) are affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable a user without administrator privileges to delete arbitrary files and potentially execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to socially engineer a victim, or the attacker must already have some access to the environment.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · psirt@adobe.comexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-284USCWE-284US

affected products (16)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Adobe Acrobat Reader≤ unspecified ≤2017.011.30175enisa_euvdEU
Adobe Acrobat Reader≤ unspecified ≤2020.012.20048enisa_euvdEU
Adobe Acrobat Reader≤ unspecified ≤Noneenisa_euvdEU
Adobe Acrobat Reader≤ unspecified ≤2020.001.30005enisa_euvdEU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Acrobat 2017≤ 2017.011.30180 Classic 2017fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Acrobat 2020≤ 2020.001.30010 Classic 2020fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud≤ 2020.013.20064 Continuousfstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017≤ 2017.011.30180 Classic 2017fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Acrobat Reader 2020≤ 2020.001.30010 Classic 2020fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Acrobat Reader Document Cloud≤ 2020.013.20064 Continuousfstec_bduRU
adobe acrobat≤ 20.001.30005nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat dc≤ 17.011.30175nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat dc≤ 20.012.20048nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat reader≤ 20.001.30005nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat reader dc≤ 17.011.30175nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat reader dc≤ 20.012.20048nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-11-05modified 2026-06-17

references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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