CVE-2021-35982

published 2021-09-29

CVE-2021-35982: Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by an Uncontrolled Search…

Priority P3 40 high 7.3 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI R S U C H I H A H

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability. A local attacker with non-administrative privileges can plant a malicious DLL to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user via DLL hijacking. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	acrobat_dc	17.011.30158 – 17.011.30199	—
adobe	acrobat_dc	20.004.30005 – 20.004.30006	—
adobe	acrobat_dc	20.006.20034 – 21.005.20060	—
adobe	acrobat_dc	20.006.20034 – 21.005.20058	—
adobe	acrobat_reader	unspecified – 2020.004.30006	—
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	17.011.30158 – 17.011.30199	—
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	20.004.30005 – 20.004.30006	—
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	20.006.20034 – 21.005.20060	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.3 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v3.0 7.3 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.4 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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