CVE-2022-28838 — Use After Free in Adobe Acrobat Reader

CWE-416 — Use After Free3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.9%
top 11.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Adobe Acrobat ReaderAdobe AcrobatAdobe Acrobat DC+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMay 11
Latest updateMay 12

Description

Acrobat Acrobat Pro DC version 22.001.2011x (and earlier), 20.005.3033x (and earlier) and 17.012.3022x (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDadobe/acrobat17.011.30059 — 17.012.30205+2
▶NVDadobe/acrobat_dc15.008.20082 — 22.001.20085
▶CVEListV5adobe/acrobat_readerunspecified — 22.001.20085+3
▶NVDadobe/acrobat_reader17.011.30059 — 17.012.30205+2
▶NVDadobe/acrobat_reader_dc15.008.20082 — 22.001.20085

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-rpcj-v472-5222: Acrobat Acrobat Pro DC version 22↗2022-05-12
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CVEList
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Doc flattenPages Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability↗2022-05-11
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