Adobe Acrobat Reader Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions Privilege escalation (Adobe Acrobat Reader)

CVE-2023-21612
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 34 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
adobe
NVD status
Modified

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.003.20282 (and earlier), 22.003.20281 (and earlier) and 20.005.30418 (and earlier) are affected by a Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-379 — Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Adobe · Acrobat Readeraffected unspecified ≤ 20.005.30418 ; affected unspecified ≤ 22.003.20282 ; affected unspecified ≤ 22.003.20281 ; 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