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

Published · last modified .

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.107 (95.7th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.7% 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-2022-28269: held from 0.110 to 0.107.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.110 · newest: 0.107 · change: -0.003

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.