CVE-2021-40724
Adobe Acrobat Reader Android Abritrary Code Execution Vulnerability
- Published
- Oct 15, 2021
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- adobe
- Evidence observed
- Aug 5, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 88.9%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1- DocViewerExploitAppExploit
This is an Exploit App I made when solving the DocumentViewer challenge (CVE-2021-40724) from MobileHackingLab. It will download a libdocviewe_pro.so library from your local machine unto the vulnerable app's internal storage, load it upon relaunch and achieve an RCE.
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