Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 11, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-21042
CVE-2021-21042
Description
Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary disclosure of information in the memory stack. 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.
Affected products
2- Range: <=2020.013.20074, <=2020.001.30018, <=2017.011.30188
- Range: unspecified
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb21-09.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
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