Use After Free in Adobe Acrobat

CVE-2022-28269

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 Annotation objects that could result in a memory leak 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

EPSS: 0.110 (95.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-28269?
CVE-2022-28269 is a low-severity vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2022-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2022-28269?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.