Adobe Acrobat 2024: untrusted search path

Medium4.0CVE-2026-80159 · Published Sep 8, 2026 · updated Sep 10, 2026

Acrobat Reader is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker with high privileges could leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access. Exploit depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.