CVE-2022-28247

Adobe Acrobat Uninstaller Hard Link Leads To Remote Code Execution

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: May 11, 2022
Updated: May 27, 2026
Reserved: Mar 30, 2022

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe	22.001.20085 and earlierAffected 20.005.3031x and earlierAffected 17.012.30205 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

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

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