CVE-2020-9715

What the flaw is

Adobe Acrobat contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allows for code execution

Description as published by CISA. We have not independently reproduced it.

What CISA requires

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

This deadline is binding on US federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01. It is not a legal deadline for anyone else, but it is a useful urgency signal — CISA sets it by how actively the flaw is being used, not by CVSS.

Public exploit code

9 public repositories referencing this CVE have been catalogued on GitHub. Treat this as a strong signal to prioritise patching, not as a verified working exploit — many such repositories are scanners, write-ups or forks rather than functional code.

• ARPSyndicate/cve-scores
• ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2020-9715
• alphaSeclab/sec-daily-2020
• by-roj/24_Vulnerability-Analysis-and-PoC-Reimplementation
• lsw29475/CVE-2020-9715
• markyason/markyason.github.io
• nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHub

Showing 8 of 9. Full list in the trickest/cve dataset.

Vendor advisories

• helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb20-48.html
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9715

Primary sources

• NVD entry — CVSS score, CPE list and references
• CISA KEV catalog — the source for this page
• CVE Record at cve.org