CVE-2021-35982

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 2020.004.30006affected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 2017.011.30199affected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 2021.005.20060affected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= Noneaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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