CVE-2021-28558CWE-122

Adobe Acrobat Reader heap-based buffer overflow could lead to arbitrary code execution

High · published September 2, 2021

CVSS v3.0
8.8
EPSS
10%
Percentile
95.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the PDFLibTool component. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.10362 · 95.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2021-09-02T16:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 SEP 16:06Z
    Adobe Acrobat Reader heap-based buffer overflow could lead to arbitrary code execution
    cvelistv5