CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-44701
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-01-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Format event actions 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.
Affected configurations
• adobe acrobat dc (>= 21.001.20149 <= 21.007.20099)
• adobe acrobat reader dc (>= 21.001.20149 <= 21.007.20099)
• adobe acrobat (>= 20.001.30005 <= 20.004.30017)
• adobe acrobat reader (>= 20.001.30005 <= 20.004.30017)
• adobe acrobat (>= 17.011.30180 <= 17.011.30204)
• adobe acrobat reader (>= 17.011.30180 <= 17.011.30204)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb22-01.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb22-01.html Patch, Vendor Advisory