CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-35982

7.3 HIGH Published 2021-09-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability. A local attacker with non-administrative privileges can plant a malicious DLL to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user via DLL hijacking. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction.

Affected configurations

• adobe acrobat dc (>= 20.006.20034 <= 21.005.20060) • adobe acrobat dc (>= 20.006.20034 <= 21.005.20058) • adobe acrobat reader dc (>= 20.006.20034 <= 21.005.20060) • adobe acrobat dc (>= 20.004.30005 <= 20.004.30006) • adobe acrobat reader dc (>= 20.004.30005 <= 20.004.30006) • adobe acrobat dc (>= 17.011.30158 <= 17.011.30199) • adobe acrobat reader dc (>= 17.011.30158 <= 17.011.30199)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References