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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2021-39846 json

Adobe Acrobat Reader /Parent Property Recursive Stack Overflow

published 2021-09-29 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-26203

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Exploit prediction

2.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.