Three Bugs Walk Into a PDF: Prototype Pollution, Served Cold
TL;DR
In April 2026, Adobe disclosed three critical security issues (CVE-2026-34621,CVE-2026-34622,CVE-2026-34626) affecting Acrobat DC, Acrobat Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024. According to Adobe’s advisories, these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and leak user information through a malicious PDF file via a prototype pollution chain and they were reportedly exploited in the wild. The initial issue, CVE-2026-34621, was first identified by EXPMON.
While several reports have already covered the threat intelligence and malware-analysis aspects of the ITW samples, we were more interested in the underlying vulnerabilities themselves and how Adobe patched them.