How severe is CVE-2020-9715?

CVE-2020-9715 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 48.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2020-9715: Adobe Acrobat Use-After-Free Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Acrobat Use-After-Free Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2026-04-13

Remediation due

2026-04-27

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb20-48.html ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9715

Description

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2020.009.20074 and earlier, 2020.001.30002, 2017.011.30171 and earlier, and 2015.006.30523 and earlier have an use-after-free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution .

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 13, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2020-9715 to the KEV catalog 2,063 days after its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2026 so far is 15 days.
It is one of 82 Adobe entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 6 added in 2026.
Its current EPSS score (48.6%) is higher than that of 49% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Adobe	Adobe Adobe Acrobat and Reader	2020.009.20074 and earlier, 2020.001.30002, 2017.011.30171 and earlier, and 2015.006.30523 and earlier versions

References

3 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2020-08-19

Last updated

2026-04-13

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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