Use After Free in Adobe Acrobat

CVE-2022-27789

Acrobat Reader DC versions 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of the acroform event that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.040 (90.1th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2022-27789: held from 0.037 to 0.040.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.040 · change: +0.003

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-27789?
CVE-2022-27789 is a high-severity vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2022-27789?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.