CVE-2024-34129 Acrobat Android : OverSecured Finding : Overwriting arbitrary files via attacker-controlled output file paths

What is CVE-2024-34129?

CVE-2024-34129 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader, published on 13 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Acrobat Mobile Sign Android versions 24.4.2.33155 and earlier are affected by an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability that could result in a security feature bypass. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access files and directories that are outside the restricted directory and also to overwrite arbitrary files. Exploitation of this issue does not requires user interaction and attack complexity is high.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-34129?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Acrobat Reader.

How do I fix CVE-2024-34129?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-34129 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2024-34129 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-34129 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader

• CVE-2009-0927 Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0511 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2014-0512 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-1152 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-1153 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-76c5-v32j-jj2x.