high Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2026-34621Adobe Acrobat and Reader — prototype pollution to code execution

Acrobat Reader 24.001.30356, 26.001.21367 and earlier let a crafted file alter the prototype of an object it should never reach, which ends in code running as the person who opened the document.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Update Acrobat and Reader per Adobe bulletin APSB26-43 now; until then open documents from outside the organisation in a plain viewer rather than the full reader.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
8.6/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
7%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2026-04-11
Added to KEV
2026-04-13
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
high
Kill chain
execution
MITRE ATT&CK
—
Severity
high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attacker needsThe victim must open an attacker-supplied document in an affected build.

Behind the card

3 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2026-34621 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-09-24