CVE-2026-81996: Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Adobe Adobe Acrobat
CVE-2026-81996 is an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat that allows a low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges without user interaction. The vulnerability changes the security scope and can lead to full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. It has a high severity rating with a CVSS score of 8.8.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat involves incorrect authorization (CWE-863) that enables a low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges. Exploitation does not require user interaction and results in a changed security scope, allowing the attacker to gain elevated access and potentially full control over the affected system. The CVSS 3.1 vector indicates local attack vector with low attack complexity, requiring low privileges and no user interaction, with scope changed and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an attacker with low privileges to escalate their access rights, potentially gaining full control over the affected system. This can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and system resources within Adobe Acrobat's context.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. No official fix or temporary mitigation has been published by Adobe at this time.
CVE-2026-81996: Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Adobe Adobe Acrobat
Description
CVE-2026-81996 is an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat that allows a low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges without user interaction. The vulnerability changes the security scope and can lead to full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. It has a high severity rating with a CVSS score of 8.8.
CVSS v3.1
Score 8.8high
Weaknesses
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Technical Analysis
This vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat involves incorrect authorization (CWE-863) that enables a low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges. Exploitation does not require user interaction and results in a changed security scope, allowing the attacker to gain elevated access and potentially full control over the affected system. The CVSS 3.1 vector indicates local attack vector with low attack complexity, requiring low privileges and no user interaction, with scope changed and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an attacker with low privileges to escalate their access rights, potentially gaining full control over the affected system. This can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and system resources within Adobe Acrobat's context.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. No official fix or temporary mitigation has been published by Adobe at this time.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- adobe
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-27T21:20:45.366Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6aa07237acd9273b4931f743
Added to database: 09/08/2026, 20:38:15 UTC
Last enriched: 09/08/2026, 20:52:31 UTC
Last updated: 09/09/2026, 01:22:37 UTC
Views: 6
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