Acrobat Reader Heap Buffer Overflow (CVE-2026-81992)
CVE-2026-81992 Published on September 8, 2026
Acrobat Reader | Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)
Acrobat Reader is affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow 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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-81992 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.
Weakness Type
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
Products Associated with CVE-2026-81992
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Affected Versions
Adobe Acrobat:- Before and including 26.002.21900 is affected.
- Version 26.002.21901 is unaffected.
- Before and including 26.002.21900 is affected.
- Version 26.002.21901 is unaffected.
- Before and including 24.001.30383 is affected.
- Version 24.001.30429 is unaffected.