Adobe Acrobat Uninstaller Hard Link Leads To Remote Code Execution (Adobe Acrobat Reader)

CVE-2022-28247
MEDIUM 6.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.47 % · percentile 41 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
adobe
NVD status
Modified

Description

Acrobat Reader DC version 22.001.2011x (and earlier), 20.005.3033x (and earlier) and 17.012.3022x (and earlier) are affected by an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must run the uninstaller with Admin privileges.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.4AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Adobe · Acrobat Readeraffected unspecified ≤ 22.001.20085 ; affected unspecified ≤ 20.005.3031x ; affected unspecified ≤ 17.012.30205 ; affected unspecified ≤ None

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD