Adobe Acrobat Reader v<=25 Uninitialized Pointer RCE (user interaction)
CVE-2025-27162 Published on March 11, 2025

Acrobat Reader | Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824)
Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30225, 20.005.30748, 25.001.20428 and earlier are affected by an Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability that could result in 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.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-27162 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

The program accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-27162

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Affected Versions

Adobe Acrobat Reader:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.04%
Percentile
12.60%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.