CVE-2021-40724

7.8 highEPSS 3.6%

High (7.8) in adobe acrobat reader. EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Acrobat Reader for Android versions 21.8.0 (and earlier) are affected by a Path traversal vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2021-10-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

adobe:acrobat_reader

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader-mobile/apsb21-89.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader-mobile/apsb21-89.html

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