This is in direct reaction to the most recent security vulnerability detected on Adobe Acrobat and Reader involving the JavaScript code.

Adobe, although they have admitted to the flaw, has not given a time line for fixing the affected applications with include Acrobat (Reader as well) 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1 and earlier.

A cybersecurity researcher is urging users to upgrade Adobe Acrobat Reader after a fix was released yesterday for a remote code execution zero-day with a public in-the-wild proof-of-concept exploit.

Adobe Acrobat Reader has a high-severity security flaw allowing for remote code execution. Update now to protect your system.

Affected are Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 2018.009.20050 and 2017.011.30070 and earlier. The vulnerability allows attackers to hide malicious JavaScript code in a PDF file.

Disabling JavaScript will prevent code execution, but not crashes of Adobe Acrobat/Reader. Trend Micro identifies different malware related to this vulnerability in older versions of Adobe Acrobat ...

Arbitrary code vulnerabilities account for seven of the critical vulnerabilities resolved in the Acrobat and Reader update. The first five (CVE-2020-9698, CVE-2020-9699, CVE-2020-9700, CVE-2020 ...