CVE-2022-28247

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 22.001.20085affected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 20.005.3031xaffected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= 17.012.30205affected
AdobeAcrobat Readerunspecified <= Noneaffected

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References