CVE-2020-9715: Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe Acrobat and Reader | APSB20-48

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB20-48

August 11, 2020

2

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS. These updates address critical and important vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

Adobe recommends users update their software installations to the latest versions by following the instructions below.

The latest product versions are available to end users via one of the following methods:

• Users can update their product installations manually by choosing Help > Check for Updates.

• The products will update automatically, without requiring user intervention, when updates are detected.

• The full Acrobat Reader installer can be downloaded from the Acrobat Reader Download Center.

For IT administrators (managed environments):

• Download the enterprise installers from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/, or refer to the specific release note version for links to installers.

• Install updates via your preferred methodology, such as AIP-GPO, bootstrapper, SCUP/SCCM (Windows), or on macOS, Apple Remote Desktop and SSH.

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version:

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVE Number

Disclosure of Sensitive Data

Memory Leak

Important

CVE-2020-9697

Security bypass

Privilege Escalation

Important

CVE-2020-9714

Out-of-bounds write

Arbitrary Code Execution

Critical

CVE-2020-9693

CVE-2020-9694

Security bypass

Security feature bypass

Critical

CVE-2020-9696

CVE-2020-9712

Stack exhaustion

Application denial-of-service

Important

CVE-2020-9702

CVE-2020-9703

Out-of-bounds read

Information disclosure

Important

CVE-2020-9723

CVE-2020-9705

CVE-2020-9706

CVE-2020-9707

CVE-2020-9710

CVE-2020-9716

CVE-2020-9717

CVE-2020-9718

CVE-2020-9719

CVE-2020-9720

CVE-2020-9721

Buffer error

Arbitrary Code Execution

Critical

CVE-2020-9698

CVE-2020-9699

CVE-2020-9700

CVE-2020-9701

CVE-2020-9704

Use-after-free

Arbitrary Code Execution

Critical

CVE-2020-9715

CVE-2020-9722

Memory corruption

Arbitrary Code Execution

Critical

CVE-2020-9713

CVE-2020-9695

Memory corruption

Information disclosure

Important

CVE-2020-9711

Adobe would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:

• Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (CVE-2020-9693, CVE-2020-9694)
• Steven Seeley of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team (CVE-2020-9723)
• Abdul-Aziz Hariri of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (CVE-2020-9697, CVE-2020-9706, CVE-2020-9707, CVE-2020-9710, CVE-2020-9712)
• Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) from Offensive Security working with iDefense Labs (CVE-2020-9714)
• Kyle Martin from North Carolina State University, Sung Ta Dinh from Arizona State University, Haehyun Cho from Arizona State University, Ruoyu “Fish” Wang from Arizona State University, Alexandros Kapravelos from North Carolina State University and Yan Shoshitaishvili from Arizona State University (CVE-2020-9722)
• Ken Hsu of Palo Alto Networks. (CVE-2020-9695)
• Zhangqing, Zhiyuan Wang and willJ from cdsrc of Qihoo 360 (CVE-2020-9716, CVE-2020-9717, CVE-2020-9718, CVE-2020-9719, CVE-2020-9720, CVE-2020-9721)
• Mark Vincent Yason (@MarkYason) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (CVE-2020-9715)
• Xinyu Wan, Yiwei Zhang and Wei You from Renmin University of China (CVE-2020-9705, CVE-2020-9711, CVE-2020-9713)
• Xu Peng from TCA/SKLCS Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wang Yanhao from QiAnXin Technology Research Institute (CVE-2020-9698, CVE-2020-9699, CVE-2020-9700, CVE-2020-9701, CVE-2020-9702, CVE-2020-9703, CVE-2020-9704)
• Yuebin Sun(@yuebinsun) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab (CVE-2020-9696)

August 25, 2020: Updated acknowledgement for CVE-2020-9722.

August 28, 2020: Included details about CVE-2020-9713, CVE-2020-9695, CVE-2020-9711.