CVE-2022-38450

HIGH

Adobe Acrobat Reader <22.002.20212, 20.005.30381 - RCE

Title source: llm

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.002.20212 (and earlier) and 20.005.30381 (and earlier) are affected by a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability 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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb22-46.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0266

EPSS Percentile 83.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-121 CWE-787

Status published

Products (4)

adobe/acrobat 20.001.30005 - 20.005.30407

adobe/acrobat_dc 15.008.20082 - 22.003.20258

adobe/acrobat_reader 20.001.30005 - 20.005.30407

adobe/acrobat_reader_dc 15.008.20082 - 22.003.20258

Published Oct 14, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026