CVE-2022-28247

medium

Published 2022-05-11 · Modified 2026-05-27

CVSS v3

6.7

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

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

6.7

Description

Acrobat Reader DC version 22.001.2011x (and earlier), 20.005.3033x (and earlier) and 17.012.3022x (and earlier) are affected by an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must run the uninstaller with Admin privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

66%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb22-16.html

CWEs

CWE-427

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.