CVE-2022-28247 Adobe Acrobat Uninstaller Hard Link Leads To Remote Code Execution

2022-04-1200:00:00

CWE-427

adobe

www.cve.org

6.7 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

19.0%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Acrobat Reader",
    "vendor": "Adobe",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "22.001.20085",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "20.005.3031x",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "17.012.30205",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "None",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]