CVE-2021-44701CWE-416

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC AcroForm Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

High · published January 14, 2022

CVSS v3.0
7.8
EPSS
21%
Percentile
97.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.20906 · 97.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2022-01-14T19:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 JAN 19:05Z
    Adobe Acrobat Reader DC AcroForm Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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