Is CVE-2026-82001 exploited in the wild?

No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-82001 being exploited in the wild.

How severe is CVE-2026-82001?

Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.5, published 8 September 2026.

Is there a fix for CVE-2026-82001?

No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.

How is CVE-2026-82001 attacked?

It is attacked with local access.

Am I affected by CVE-2026-82001?

Check whether you run Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Dc or one of the others listed. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

CVE-2026-82001: Adobe Acrobat Reader denial-of-service via uncontrolled resource consumption

CVE-2026-82001 · Severity: medium · CVSS 5.5 · Published 2026-09-08

Adobe Acrobat Reader, a widely used application for viewing and editing PDF documents, is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack through uncontrolled resource consumption. An attacker can craft a malicious PDF file that, when opened by a user, exhausts system resources and crashes the application, disrupting work and potentially affecting broader system stability.

Technologies: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Dc, Adobe Acrobat Reader Dc, Apple macOS, Microsoft Windows. Vendors: Adobe, Apple, Microsoft.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-82001 exploited in the wild?: No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-82001 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-82001?: Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.5, published 8 September 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-82001?: No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
How is CVE-2026-82001 attacked?: It is attacked with local access.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-82001?: Check whether you run Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Dc or one of the others listed. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

This is an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability (CWE-400 or similar) in Adobe Acrobat Reader's PDF parsing engine. The vulnerability is triggered when a victim opens a specially crafted malicious PDF file, causing the application to consume excessive system resources (CPU, memory, or disk I/O). The attack requires user interaction—the victim must be tricked into opening the malicious file—and does not provide remote code execution or data exfiltration. A patch is expected to be available via Adobe's security bulletin APSB26-141.

Affected products

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Timeline

2026-09-08: disclosed

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb26-141.html

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