Adobe Acrobat Security Vulnerabilities Allow Root Privileges on Mac, Update Now

Thursday May 14, 2020 7:28 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

Tencent security researcher Yuebin Sun today disclosed three security vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader for Mac that could allow an attacker to gain root privileges and access sensitive user data.

Adobe patched the vulnerabilities in an update to Acrobat this week, so make sure you are running version 2020.009.20063 or later by opening the app and navigating to Help > Check for Updates.

Adobe has shared a security bulletin with more details.

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Top Rated Comments

ouimetnick

76 months ago

Is there a benefit to using Adobe Acrobat Reader on a Mac? Preview seems to handle larger resolution PDFs with ease while it stutters and chokes with Adobe.

Score: 32 Votes (Like | Disagree)

essaXio

76 months ago

Who is using Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac? It is ugly and slow

Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)

GadgetBen

76 months ago

Adobe is such a pile of garbage. Steve Jobs never liked them, very much like Windows there are ALWAYS more vulnerabilities with Adobe. Thank god Flash is nearly dead.

Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)

AFPBoy

76 months ago

"Cannot connect to Adobe update server. Please verify that you are connected to the Internet and check for updates again."

Thanks Adobe!

Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)