CVE-2026-81993

medium

Assigned by CNA: adobe

Published 2026-09-08 · Modified 2026-09-08

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CVSS v3

5.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

Acrobat Reader is affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to disclose sensitive information. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb26-141.html

CWEs

CWE-122

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.